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The End Of A Family Story
bookshelves: translation, one-penny-wonder, hungary, paper-read, winter-20122013
Read from December 03 to 04, 2012
Imre Goldstein is the translator.
Opening quote:
Opening: Among lilacs and hazel bushes, under the elderberries. Not far from that tree where sometimes a leaf would stir even with no wind blowing.
If you are looking at this as a quickie then it can't be recommended, 242 pages of large print notwithstanding. The End of a Family Story is initially hard to penetrate and then it plays havoc on nerves strung as taut as a hungarian folk-dance fiddle.
The unfolding is in the parables, it is even in the straight stories but to a youngster they sound just like a parable because they are so bizarre.
All over pervading chill.
Opening quote:
- John 1:5
And the light shineth in the darkness; and the
darkness comprehended it not.
Opening: Among lilacs and hazel bushes, under the elderberries. Not far from that tree where sometimes a leaf would stir even with no wind blowing.
If you are looking at this as a quickie then it can't be recommended, 242 pages of large print notwithstanding. The End of a Family Story is initially hard to penetrate and then it plays havoc on nerves strung as taut as a hungarian folk-dance fiddle.
The unfolding is in the parables, it is even in the straight stories but to a youngster they sound just like a parable because they are so bizarre.
All over pervading chill.
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