The Sinistra Zone - Softcover

Bodor, Adam; Olchváry, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 081121978X ISBN 13: 9780811219785

Publisher: New Directions, 2013

Synopsis

Entering a weird, remote hamlet, Andrei calls himself "a simple wayfarer," but he is in fact highly compromised: he has no identity papers. Taken under the wing of the military zone's commander, Andrei is first assigned to guard the blueberries that supply a nearby bear reserve. He is surrounded by human wrecks, supernatural umbrellas, birds carrying plagues, albino twins.

The bears -- and an affair with a married woman -- occupy Andrei until his protector is replaced by a new female commander, "a slender creature, quiet, diaphanous, like a dragonfly," and yet an iron-fisted harridan. As things grow ever more alarming, Andrei becomes a "corpse watchman," standing guard over the dead to check for any signs of life, and then ...

About this title

About the Authors

The author of ten volumes of fiction since 1969, Ádám Bodor is an award-winning, Transylvanian-born Hungarian writer.

Paul Olcháry has received grants from the NEA, PEN, and Hungary's Milán Fu]st Foundation.

Edition details

• Publisher: New Directions
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 081121978X
• ISBN 13: 9780811219785
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208