Singular and uncompromising, Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming is a masterpiece by one of the great writers of our time. László Krasznahorkai accepts 2019 National Book Award for Translated Literature, NBF Presents: Colleges, Libraries & Festivals. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. Something we hope you'll especially enjoy: FBA items qualify for FREE Shipping and Amazon Prime. He … I stopped reading it about a month ago halfway through the book and haven't picked it back up. Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. Unable to add item to List. Free UK p&p over £15. Topics. My only real complaint about the book is the attack on Hungary and Hungarians that occurs in the latter part of the book. English translation copyright © by Ottilie Mulzet. Monsters, ghosts, fantastic beings, and supernatural phenomena. New Directions; Reprint Edition (September 24, 2019), Unique, interesting and painstakingly slow, Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2020. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. More about this author >, László Krasznahorkai was born in Gyula, Hungary. Having escaped from his many casino debts in Buenos Aires, where he was living in exile, he longs to be reunited with his high-school sweetheart Marika. WINNER OF THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE, "Krasznahorkai’s masterpiece" (The Millions); "Apocalyptic, visionary, and mad" (Publishers Weekly); "One of the supreme achievements of contemporary literature" (Paris Review); "Obsessive and visionary" (The New Yorker); "Genius" (The Baffler), At last, the capstone to Krasznahorkai’s four-part masterwork. There's a problem loading this menu right now. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, Visit Amazon's László Krasznahorkai Page, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. "The Lost Girls of Devon" by Barbara O'Neal, Previous page of related Sponsored Products. I don't read novels that often because I find them too long. Confusions abound, and what follows is an endless storm of gossip, con men, and local politicians, vividly evoking the small town’s alternately drab and absurd existence. In both, an ensemble cast of predominantly unsympathetic losers see their salvation in the near-messianic arrival of a figure long thought lost: Irimiás in Satantango, and the Baron in Homecoming. Having escaped from his many casino debts in Buenos Aires, where he was … Fascinating.”, The Underdogs: A Novel of the Mexican Revolution (Penguin Classics). media László Krasznahorkai accepts 2019 National Book Award … Ottilie Mulzet’s remarkable translation captures the density of his extended sentences, their many twists and pivots, and the slow accumulation of their extraordinary intellectual and moral force.