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Tranquility (2001)

by Attila Bartis(Favorite Author)

4.03 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0980033004 (ISBN13: 9780980033007)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Archipelago

review 1: Dark, funny, poignant mix of late-Communist political farce (in Hungary) and the narrator's own grappling with his own forms of narrative confession, this book won the 2008 Best Translated Book Award, and I can see why. I don't know how much, if any, of this narrative comes from Bartis' own life, but the story within this book is gut-wrenching and yet impossible to tear oneself away from. Recommended.
review 2: My neighbor Randy owns the only bookstore in our city. Many would regard this as an asset. First meet him and then hazard a guess. Unctuous and opportunistic, he is leading an involunatry campaign against localism and he doesn't even know. Well he pegged this once correctly. He thought I'd like it and I did. Tranquility doesn't flinch. The sorrows of ... morefractured family float in lasting exhibition. less

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