TY  - BOOK
AU  - Krasznahorkai,Laszlo
AU  - George Szirtes (tr.)
TI  - SATANTANGO
SN  - 9781788166355
U1  - F 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - London
PB  - Tuskar Rock Press
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Hungarian fiction 
N1  - Translated by George Szirtes
From the winner of the Man Booker International Prize

In the darkening embers of a Communist utopia, life in a desolate Hungarian town has come to a virtual standstill. Flies buzz, spiders weave, water drips and animals root desultorily in the barnyard of a collective farm.

But when the charismatic Irimias - long-thought dead - returns, the villagers fall under his spell. Irimias sets about swindling the villagers out of a fortune that might allow them to escape the emptiness and futility of their existence. He soon attains a messianic aura as he plays on the fears of the townsfolk and a series of increasingly brutal events unfold
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