Siege 13
Minneapolis : Milkweed Editions, 2013.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 339 pages ; 20 cm
"Built around the events of the Soviet Budapest Offensive at the end of World War II and its long shadow, the stories in Siege 13 are full of wit, irony, and dark humor. In a series of linked stories that alternate between the siege itself and a contemporary community of Hungarian emigrés who find refuge in the West (Canada, the U.S,. and parts of Europe), Dobozy utilizes a touch of deadpan humor and a deep sense of humanity to extoll the horrors and absurdity of ordinary people caught in the crosshairs of brutal conflict and its silent aftermath. Carefully constructing an intentionally faulty history of war and its effects on a community, Dobozy blurs the line between right and wrong, portraying a world in which one man's betrayal is another man's survival, and in which common citizens are caught between the pincers of aggressors, leading to actions at once deplorable, perplexing, and heroic. A psychological study in the affects of aggression, silence, and social upheaval, Dobozy's stories feature characters, "lost forever in the labyrinth built on the thin border between memories and reality, past and present, words and silence. Like Nabokov, Tamas Dobozy combines the best elements of European and American storytelling, creating a fictional world of his own."(David Albahari, author of Gotz and Meyer)"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
The atlas of B. Gorbe -- The animals of the Budapest Zoo, 1944-1945 -- Sailor's mouth -- The restoration of the villa where Tibor Kalman once lived -- The beautician -- Days of orphans and strangers -- Rosewood queens -- The encirclement -- The society of friends -- The miracles of Saint Marx -- The selected mug shots of famous Hungarian assassins -- The ghosts of Budapest and Toronto -- The homemade doomsday machine.
Subjects:
World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction.
Hungarians -- Foreign countries -- Fiction.
Immigrants -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction.
Hungarians -- Foreign countries -- Fiction.
Immigrants -- Fiction.
ISBN:
1571310975 (pbk.)
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
F Dobozy | North Main | Fiction | In |