A timeless masterpiece from one of the world's most distinguished writers
L.szl. Krasznahorkai was born in Gyula, Hungary, in 1954. He has written five novels and won numerous prizes, including the 2013 Best Translated Book Award in Fiction for Satantango. In 1993, he won the Best Book of the Year Award in Germany for The Melancholy of Resistance and in 2015 was the winner of the Man Booker International Prize. For more about Krasznahorkai, visit his extensive website: http://www.krasznahorkai.hu/
The universality of Krasznahorkai's vision rivals that of Gogol's
Dead Souls and far surpasses all the lesser concerns of
contemporary writing.
*W.G. Sebald*
The contemporary Hungarian master of apocalypse who inspires
comparison with Gogol and Melville.
*Susan Sontag*
László Krasznahorkai writes prose of breathtaking energy and
beauty. He manages to combine our most earthly concerns with large
cosmic questions. His tones and textures are filled with both risk
and certainty. He has elevated the novel form and is to be ranked
among the great European novelists
*Colm Toibin*
Krasznahorkai is a visionary writer.
*Guardian*
Krasznahorkai is the kind of writer who at least once on every page
finds a way of expressing something one has always sensed but never
known, let alone been able to describe.
*Nicole Krauss*
As the worthy winner of this year's Man Booker International prize,
Krasznahorkai throws down a challenge: raise your game or get your
coat... the intensity of his commitment to the art of fiction is
indisputable...exhilarating, even euphoric.
*The Guardian*
As always with Mr Krasznahorkai, real understanding remains beyond
grasp, though a sense of illumination is pervasive. As a novelist
he is a one-off, even if his work-as this book so finely shows-is
universal.
*The Economist*
The latest and most luminous book to appear in English by the
Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai... a devastatingly
thoughtful, austere and contemplative book, written with a deep
knowledge of artistic technique and human affairs that is rare
among novelists.
*Daily Telegraph*
These captivating pages.
*New Statesman*
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