Szentek hárfája

A historical novel and an intellectual crime story that begins in the 1920s. Its narrators set out to uncover the background and motives of a murder of that time: why the student Tamás Grynaus killed the wealthy farmer Mátyás Omaszta in the Great Church of Haragos, where the body and the culprit disappeared to, and how the crime changed the life of a community. The book follows the familiar storytelling tradition of as many stories as there are narrators, but uses it in its own way: the stories open up like layers slowly peeled off an onion, in a richly varied language that also shows how Hungarian changed over the past century.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

317 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, Crime (assigned by AI)

Set in

Hungary, 1920s

First published

2010 by Magvető

Author's age

46 when first published

ISBN

9789631427684 (original)