The Dog Hunters of Lojang
Netherlands (Wereldbibliotheek), Romania (Nemira)
Using the bright or pale coloring of oriental fairytales, he tells of the misfortune of immortality, or the senselessness of war, of...
These fifteen outrageous stories take place in an imaginary Chinese setting with no specific time or location. The evil little parables from the »Djinn Academy« permeate the book like images from the mind, and alongside Chinese emperors Darvasi presents dreamers, engineers, artists, dog hunters and intellectuals, but above all children.
Using the bright or pale coloring of oriental fairytales, he tells of the misfortune of immortality, or the senselessness of war, of puzzling and dangerous works of art, but also of those daily shocks that accompany love and envy, the injustice of fate and the all-permeating feeling of futility. What makes the book so charming to read is the seductive mixture of supposedly naïve fantasy and unfathomable puzzlement. The unmistakable mark of Darvasi becomes much more prominent in this labyrinth of short stories than in a novel.
»These Chinese stories are perhaps Darvasi’s best and mysterious work to date.« Eva Haldimann
Persons
László Darvasi
László Darvasi, born in 1962 in southern Hungary, has worked as a teacher and journalist. He came to prominence as a poet and published short works of prose and novellas. Darvasi, who lives in Szeged and Budapest, is considered one of the greatest talents in Hungarian literature. In 2019, he received the »Aleksandar Tišma« International Literary Prize for his work.
László Darvasi, born in 1962 in southern Hungary, has worked as a teacher and journalist. He came to prominence as a poet and published short...
OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Winter Morning
An entire orchestra dies tragically during a bus accident; sole survivor is the drummer, who sets about carrying out their task single-handedly: releasing patients of a psychiatric...
Italy (Il Saggiatore), Bulgaria (Paradox), Serbia (Akademska Knjiga)

The Flower Eaters
Like in his novel Die Legende von den Tränengauklern (A könnymutatványosok...
Spanish world rights (Sexto Piso), Netherlands (Wereldbibliotheek), Poland (Jagiellonian UP), Czech Republic (Dauphin), Bulgaria (Paradox)

When a Centre Forward is dreaming
Croatia (Fraktura), Turkey (Iletisim)

Mr. Stern
Some stories you never forget.
A forester finds a human arm in the forest, buried in the earth, still warm; it must have been ripped out with enormous force – but the body it belonged to is nowhere to be found. Before the mystery is solved in what is literally the novel’s final sentence, we hear the sad story of Mr. Stern, a private academic, who holds...

Getting Hold of a Woman
Croatia (Fraktura)

The Legend of the Tear Jugglers
Italy (Il Saggiatore), Netherlands (Wereldbibliotheek), Czech Republic (Dauphin)