The Ninth

Informationen zum Autor FERENC BARNÁS is an acclaimed Hungarian novelist whose books include Az é losködo (The Parasite) and Bagatell (Bagatelle) . He is the recipient of two of Hungary's highest literary honors: the Sándor Márai Prize (2001) and the Tibor Déry Prize (2006). Klappentext Set in a sleepy village north of Budapest in 1968, this touching, unsettling novel paints a richly wrought portrait of mid-twentieth-century Hungary. The narrator is the ninth child of a family distinguished by its size, poverty, faith, and abundance of physical and psychological disabilities.

Product details

• Authors: Ferenc Barnas, Ferenc/ Olchvary Barnas
• Assisted by: Paul Olchvary (Translation)
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.05.2009
• EAN: 9780810126022
• ISBN: 978-0-8101-2602-2
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Writings from an Unbound Europ; Writings from an Unbound Europ
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature