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The World Goes On
Written by László Krasznahorkai
Translated by Ottilie Mulzet, George Szirtes, John Batki
- Original language:
- Hungarian
- Shortlisted
- The Man Booker International Prize 2018
- Published by Tuskar Rock Press, Serpent's Tail
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László Krasznahorkai’s collection of 21 stories, each about ‘speeding our body toward annihilation, and immersing ourselves in a current of thought’
An utterly astonishing collection of tales from the master of invention. A Hungarian interpreter obsessed with waterfalls, at the edge of the abyss in his own mind, wanders the chaotic streets of Shanghai. A traveller, reeling from the sights and sounds of Varanasi, encounters a giant of a man on the banks of the Ganges ranting on the nature of a single drop of water. A child labourer in a Portuguese marble quarry wanders off from work one day into a surreal realm alien from his daily toils…
László Krasznahorkai
Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2015 and shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2018, László Krasznahorkai is a Hungarian novelist and screenwriter
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