Magdalena Parys - A mágus

Dagmara, a Polish TV journalist living in Berlin, is slowly reaching the top of her career, but suddenly the ghosts of the past return. Although he has already fit in so much that he prefers to move around Warsaw as a stranger, he is suddenly tormented again by the identity crisis he suffered as a teenager. He lost his father, an active opposition adviser to Solidarity, who died in unclear circumstances in Bulgaria when he was a child, but his killers, former collaborators of the Stasi, are increasingly active in today's German politics. They strive for power, just as recklessly as before. Tragedy repeats itself, but we can only understand this if we go back in time and uncover the secrets.
MAGDALENA PARYS (1971) was born in Gdańsk, her family emigrated to West Berlin in 1984. After the unification of Germany, he studied Polish philology and pedagogy at Humboldt University. His poems, short stories, essays and reviews have been published since 2001, and since 2011 he has been publishing novels in which he portrays the problems of Polish and German identity from the inside. In 2015, he received the European Union Literary Award for his novel The Magician, the first part of the Berlin trilogy.
LAJOS PÁLFALVI (1959) translates Polish and Russian literature, wrote a monograph on Polish emigrant prose and Gombrowicz's oeuvre. He teaches Polish literature at the Polish Department of PPKE, in addition to the Polish essay school, he deals with the Central and Eastern European version of postcolonialism.