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Deep Breath
Mély levegő
Rita Halász (born 1980)
Translated by Kris Herbert
English editions
In EnglishDeep Breath
Catapult · United States · May 2025 · 224 pages
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Vera is suffocating in her marriage. After a brutal quarrel she moves out of her husband's home with their two small children and has to decide: try to mend the marriage, or start her life over and learn to breathe freely again. Told in the first person, in taut, unsettlingly honest and sharply ironic sentences, the novel traces how a couple in their thirties came together and fell into crisis, and the hard confrontations on the way out. It mixes traumatic experience with fairy tales, the real with the dreamlike, and grave subjects with humour, hiding nothing and taking no one's side.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 194 pages in the original
- Genres
- Family, Love (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Hungary
- First published
- 2020 by Jelenkor
- Author's age
- 40 when first published
- ISBN
9789635180417 (original)
9781646222681 (Catapult, United States)