It's raining in Moscow / Zsuzsa Selyem ; translated by Erika Mihálycsa with Peter Sherwood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Selyem, Zsuzsa, 1967- author.

Contributor:

Mihálycsa, Erika, translator.

Sherwood, P. A. (Peter A.), translator.

Standardized Title:

Moszkvában esik. English

Language:

English

Hungarian

Subjects (All):

Beczásy, István, 1908---Fiction.

Beczásy, István.

Beczásy, István, 1908-.

Families--Romania--Transylvania--History--20th century--Fiction.

Families.

History.

Romania--Transylvania.

Genre:

Biographical fiction.

Historical fiction.

Fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

147 pages ; 20 cm

Edition:

First Contra Mundum Press edition 2019.

Place of Publication:

New York : Contra Mundum Press, [2020]

Language Note:

English translation of the original Hungarian.

Summary:

" ... a novel that goes both beyond and stays this side of history -- the history of a family, of the post-1945 deportations, of a multiethnic region in Eastern Europe, Transylvania, in the 20th century, of the interactions of animals, plants and humans, where for once the text inhabits the non-human perspectives. A novel that repeatedly asks the question, what do we need to face our own lies and the lies of others; what do we accept as truth if we are dispossessed, left to our own means and entirely alone in the wasteland, or in the torture chamber? Eleven stories from the short 20th century -- the defining events in the life of a man, István Beczássy, the author's grandfather, from sexual initiation to interrogation and torture at the hands of the Securitate, the secret police of communist Romania, narrated mostly from animal perspectives ..."-- Back cover.

Contents:

Hunt, 1947

Forest, 1789

Moulin Rouge, 1927

Couterfeit francs, 1927

People's court, 1945

Carnival, 1949

Journey, 1950

Patisserie, 1952

Danube, 1954

Iron gates, 1989

Circus finale.

Notes:

Includes index of place names.

ISBN:

1940625394

9781940625393

OCLC:

1151896414