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Summer Resort, the first novel by noted translator Esther Kinsky, is set in a village somewhere on the endless Hungarian plain. It is the hottest summer in memory and everyone in the village dreams of the sweet life in Üdülö, a summer resort on a river. The characters that populate Summer Resort tell stories--comic, tragic, or both--of life in rural Hungary. Tales of onion kings and melon pickers, of scrapyards and sugar beet factories, paint a vivid and human picture of their world. In the course of the novel, the storytellers' paths intersect at the summer resort with the bar owner Lacibacsi, the Kozak Boys and their fat and pale wives, and the builder Antal, who introduces a mysterious new woman to the inhabitants of the resort. The stranger disrupts their otherwise staid summer routines--with surprising, unpredictable consequences. Now available for the first time in English, Summer Resort brings to a new audience one of the most distinctive emerging voices in recent German writing. … (altro)
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For Sicco Heyligers (1959-2006)
Incipit
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Everyone remembers the year of the heat.
Citazioni
Ultime parole
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With time the notes grow quieter, weaker, thinner, more distant, the river will rise, wind come, clouds, rain, the heat abate, it will smell of autumn, of elder, apples, smoke, fire, emptiness, then it will be still, time to go, to crawl out of the undergrowth, out of the fingers of the river into a life, slip to the other side, elsewhere.
Summer Resort, the first novel by noted translator Esther Kinsky, is set in a village somewhere on the endless Hungarian plain. It is the hottest summer in memory and everyone in the village dreams of the sweet life in Üdülö, a summer resort on a river. The characters that populate Summer Resort tell stories--comic, tragic, or both--of life in rural Hungary. Tales of onion kings and melon pickers, of scrapyards and sugar beet factories, paint a vivid and human picture of their world. In the course of the novel, the storytellers' paths intersect at the summer resort with the bar owner Lacibacsi, the Kozak Boys and their fat and pale wives, and the builder Antal, who introduces a mysterious new woman to the inhabitants of the resort. The stranger disrupts their otherwise staid summer routines--with surprising, unpredictable consequences. Now available for the first time in English, Summer Resort brings to a new audience one of the most distinctive emerging voices in recent German writing.