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The Dispossessed
Nincstelenek
Szilárd Borbély (born 1963)
Translated by Ottilie Mulzet
English editions
In EnglishThe Dispossessed
Harper Perennial · United States · 2016 · Paperback · 288 pages
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A boy grows up in a poor village with a family that does not belong. The rule at home is silence: the children may talk to no one, play with no one, never say who they are and never run with the peasant children, because whatever happens, they will be the ones blamed. The book is less about the village than about what a village and its poverty do to a child, and about a childhood that is unbearable there.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 323 pages in the original
- Genres
- Coming of age, Family (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Hungary
- First published
- 2013 by Kalligram
- Author's age
- 50 when first published
- ISBN
9788081017063 (original)
9780062364081 (Harper Perennial, United States)