The Ninth Contributor(s): Barnas, Ferenc (Author), Olchvary, Paul (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0810126028 ISBN-13: 9780810126022 Publisher: Northwestern University Press OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2009 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
Dewey: 894.511 |
LCCN: 2009003186 |
Series: Writings from an Unbound Europe (Paperback) |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (0.55 lbs) 176 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Set in a sleepy village north of Budapest in 1968, this touching, unsettling novel paints a richly wrought portrait of mid-twentieth-century Hungary. The narrator is the ninth child of a family distinguished by its size, poverty, faith, and abundance of physical and psychological disabilities. His confusion is exacerbated by the strict, secretive Catholic household his parents keep in the face of a Communist system. These dual oppressions propel him toward an inevitable realization of his guilt and desire that speaks to his struggle with a fateful, seamless beauty. |