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Ádam Bodor
Sinistra's District
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Acantilado
January 2003
208 pages
Narrative, Novel
Translation Rights
English (New Directions)
Hungarian (WYDAWNICTWO CZARNE)
Italian (Il Saggiatore)
Original Title: El distrito de Sinistra
One day, Andrej Bodor, arrives in the Sinistra district, a closed, mountainous border area, in search of his stepson who, rumour has it, is living there in self-imposed exile. From this point on, his life will never be the same… This work is about an abandoned city where everyone seems destined for tragedy. People keep disappearing, as if by magic but they also come back showing no sign of abnormality. This is a dictatorship headed by a group of hunters who subjugate the mountain people. With its poignant beauty, El distrito de Sinistra is a last cry for help in the quest for humanity.
Prizes
La Vanguardia’s Best Book of Foreign Fiction, 2003
Praises
«With its stunning prose and black humour, this is an intense visual evocation of the harshness of nature».
Words Without Borders
«Ádám Bodor is a narrator of wonderful stories which are yet to be discovered». Die Zeit «It would be difficult to find in contemporary European literature a darker, more brutal yet more La Vanguardia’s Best Book of Foreign Fiction, 2003 lyrical satire than this book».
El País
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