A dögeltakarító

A young Hungarian from Novi Sad comes out of the Yugoslav wars carrying memories he cannot shake off. Searching for safety and for freedom, he takes a road that leads to Split, then to Budapest and to Berlin, while America lures him as the promise of a place where the nightmares might finally fade. Can the memory of a war be left behind at all, or is there nothing to do but live with it? Told in long, winding sentences that can run for pages, the novel follows a memory that both flees and cannot flee, in a story by turns grotesque and disturbing about how far a person can, and cannot, break free of circumstances that are sometimes terrifying and sometimes uplifting. Some of the answers may lie in a dusk in Temerin, a small town in Vojvodina.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

264 pages in the original

Genres

War, Migration (assigned by AI)

Set in

Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Germany

First published

2015 by Magvető

ISBN

9789631432589 (original)