The Two Trick Pony
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Translated by George Szirtes
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ABOUT THE BOOK
Winner of the Best Translated Book Award 2013
By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2025 and 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.
Translated by George Szirtes and Ottilie Mulzet.
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