Gyorgy Spiro

Broschiertes Buch

Captivity

Beschreibung

An award-winning tale from Hungary, set during the first century, follows the holy pilgrimage of a hapless Roman-Jewish youth who after an encounter with a condemned Jesus undergoes a scholarly and sexual awakening before escaping a pogrom and returning home to discover a family transformation.

Autor

Born in 1946 in Budapest, award-winning dramatist, novelist, and translator György Spiró has earned a reputation as one of postwar Hungary's most prominent and prolific literary figures. He teaches at ELTE University of Budapest, where he specializes in Slavic literatures. Tim Wilkinson gave up his job in the pharmaceutical industry to translate Hungarian literature and history. He is the primary translator of Nobel Prize-winner Imre Kertész. Wilkinson's translation of Kertész's Fatelessness won the PEN Club/Book of the Month Translation Prize in 2005.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Regan Arts
• Seitenzahl: 896
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 154mm x 53mm
• Gewicht: 1016g
• ISBN-13: 9781632061416
• ISBN-10: 1632061414
• Artikelnr.: 44732898