The Legend of the Tear Jugglers
Italy (Il Saggiatore), Netherlands (Wereldbibliotheek), Czech Republic (Dauphin)
Whatever, the world they are bemoaning has traits very similar to that of today. Though set in Turkish-occupied Hungary of the 16th...
Nobody knows from where they come, the five mysterious figures who make their way through a central Europe torn asunder by wars and epidemics, pogroms and struggles for freedom, performing works of art with their tears. Their clapped-out old carriage can always be found wherever people are plagued by misfortune and violence. Who are these tear jugglers?
Whatever, the world they are bemoaning has traits very similar to that of today. Though set in Turkish-occupied Hungary of the 16th / 17th centuries, this is not a historical novel. The story of the main character Franz Pillinger is weaved into a poetic cosmos, in which fantastic elements are reported just as succinctly as the commotion that calls itself politics. Darvasi describes hundreds of types of love and death, of sympathy and inhumanity, an encyclopedic epic of the turmoil of European history, which is with us just as much today.
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

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Italy (Il Saggiatore), Bulgaria (Paradox), Serbia (Akademska Knjiga)

The Flower Eaters
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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...

The Dog Hunters of Lojang
Netherlands (Wereldbibliotheek), Romania (Nemira)

Getting Hold of a Woman
Croatia (Fraktura)