Great Samples of Contemporary Hungarian Literature [antikvár]

SYNOPSIS Can you shake the memories of war? Can you do anything but dig yourself ever deeper? The Carcass Remover is a book of failed attempts to escape such memories. Its protagonist, a Hungarian survivor of the Yugoslav Wars, sets out on a search for security and freedom. His travels from Split through Budapest to Berlin, heading for the US—though the answer to ultimate questions may be hidden in a sunset over Temerin. The protagonist's identity, lost in the war, seems to be reconstructed through his stories. He faithfully depicts the deficiencies and the backlashes involved in great national narratives, as well as the process of replacing them with stories of smuggling gas across the border and digging graves in the wake of war's atrocities. Danyi's novel is an upsetting and grotesque description of how human existence may—or may not—grow free of its shocking and overwhelming circumstances.