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A Mountain to the North, A Lake to The South, Paths to the West, A River to the East by Laszlo Krasznahorkai
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
An exquisitely beautiful new novel from one of the world's greatest living writers. The grandson of Prince Genji lives outside of space and time and wanders the grounds of an old monastery in Kyoto. The monastery, too, is timeless, with barely a trace of any human presence. The wanderer is searching fo ...Show more
A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East by Laszlo Krasznahorkai; Ottilie Mulzet (Translator)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The grandson of Prince Genji lives outside of space and time and wanders the grounds of an old monastery in Kyoto. The monastery, too, is timeless: a place of prayer and deliverance, with barely a trace of any human presence. The wanderer is searching for a garden that has long captivated him: "he conti ...Show more
Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming by Laszlo Krasznahorkai; Ottilie Mulzet
$48.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Set in contemporary times, Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming tells the story of a Prince Myshkin-like figure, Baron Béla Wenckheim, who returns at the end of his life to his provincial Hungarian hometown. Having escaped from his many casino debts in Buenos Aires, where he was living in exile, he longs to be ...Show more
Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming by Laszlo Krasznahorkai
$39.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Nearing the end of his life, Baron Bela Wenckheim decides to return to the provincial Hungarian town of his birth. Having escaped from his many casino debts in Buenos Aires, where he was living in exile, he wishes to be reunited with his high-school sweetheart Marika. What follows is an endless storm of ...Show more
Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming by Laszlo Krasznahorkai (translated by Ottilie Mulzet)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Hailed internationally as perhaps the most important novel of the young twenty-first century, Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming is the culmination of László Krasznahorkai's remarkable and singular career.'Baron Wenkcheim's Homecoming is a fitting capstone to Krasznahorkai's tetralogy, one of the supreme achi ...Show more
Destruction and Sorrow beneath the Heavens: Reportage by Laszlo Krasznahorkai
$62.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Known for his brilliantly dark fictional visions, László Krasznahorkai is one of the most respected European writers of his generation and the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize. Here, he brings us on a journey through China at the dawn of the new millennium. On the precipice of its emerg ...Show more
Satantango by Laszlo Krasznahorkai
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Already famous as the inspiration for the filmmaker Bela Tarr's six-hour masterpiece, Satantango is proof, as the spellbinding, bleak, and hauntingly beautiful book has it, that "the devil has all the good times." The story of Satantango, spread over a couple of days of endless rain, focuses on the doze ...Show more
Satantango by Laszlo Krasznahorkai
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"Satantango" is the masterpiece of post-war Hungarian literature, now available for the first time in English. 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 bar ...Show more
Satantango by Laszlo Krasznahorkai
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Satantango is a visionary masterpiece of post-war Hungarian literature: bleak, brutal and brilliant. 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 ...Show more
Satantango by Laszlo Krasznahorkai
$28.50 AUD
Category: Fiction
Now in paperback, Satantango, the novel that inspired Bela Tarr's classic film, is proof that the devil has all the good times. Set in an isolated hamlet, the novel unfolds over the course of a few rain-soaked days. Only a dozen inhabitants remain in the bleak village, rank with the stench of failed sch ...Show more
Satantango by Krasznahorkai, Laszlo
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Translated by George SzirtesIn 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 - ...Show more
Seiobo There Below by Laszlo Krasznahorkai
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Seiobo -- a Japanese goddess -- has a peach tree in her garden that blossoms once every three thousand years: its fruit brings immortality. In Seiobo There Below, we see her returning again and again to mortal realms, searching for a glimpse of perfection. Beauty, in Krasznahorkai's new novel, reflects, ...Show more