Barnás Ferenc - Másik halál (4th revised edition)

A forty-year-old man from Pest, who was a university professor not so long ago, collapses psychologically and existentially overnight. A waiter living in Germany who suffers from insomnia commits suicide. A Hungarian aristocrat, sometimes a tinsmith, sometimes a taxi driver, sometimes the XX. patron angel of one of the most significant writers of 19th-century Hungarian literature. Reconstruction of what happened in a restaurant in Geneva, which is closely related to the carnage in Bosnia. Snapshots of everyday life in Hungary after the regime change... The multiple narrations used at the same time require constant attention, but this only increases the excitement of solving riddles and mysteries, which - like in a good crime story - reaches its climax at the end. The Second Death is a large-scale writer's attempt to present the hidden connections of personal fate and history. Ferenc Barnás was born in Debrecen in 1959. His prose works have been translated into English, German, French, Czech, Croatian, Serbian and Indonesian, among others. He has been living and working in Jakarta since 2015. The Other Death is part of a cycle of novels. HIS WORKS: The parasite (Kalligram, 1997), Bagatell (Kalligram, 2000), The ninth (Magvető, 2006), Another death (Kalligram, 2012), The ninth (2nd, revised edition, Kalligram, 2014), Bagatell (2nd, revised edition, Kalligram, 2015), Until the end of our lives (Kalligram, 2019) AWARDS: Sándor Márai Award (2001), Tibor Déry Award (2006), Best Translated Book Award (USA, nomination, 2010) , International Dublin Literary Award (Ireland, nomination, 2010), Aegon Art Award (2013), Glass Ball Award (2013), Füst Milan Award (2019)

Kalligram Publishing House
Novel
296 pages
Binding: hardboard, with protective cover
ISBN: 9789634682332
Author: Ferenc Barnás
Release year: 2021