- Aegon Art Award 2015 · Winner
Kitömött barbár
“The Stuffed Barbarian” (title translated by AI)
Gergely Péterfy (born 1966)
English editions
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In 1796 the Hungarian writer Ferenc Kazinczy is serving a seven-year prison sentence in Bohemia when his friend Angelo Soliman dies in Vienna. On the emperor's orders Soliman's body is stuffed and displayed in the Natural History Museum. Thirty-six years later Kazinczy's widow, Sophie Török, goes to the museum to face the stuffed body. The novel was ten years in the making.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 447 pages in the original
- Genres
- Historical (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Austria, Hungary, Czechia, 1790s–1830s
- First published
- 2014 by Kalligram
- Author's age
- 48 when first published
- ISBN
9786155454240 (original)