by Zsófia Bán (Author), Jim Tucker (Translator), Péter Nádas (Afterword by)
A tongue-in-cheek textbook for how to live in our modern age.
Author Biography
Zsófia Bán grew up in Brazil and Hungary, and is the author of three works of fiction and four essay collections. She's won the Glass Marble Prize, Tibo Déry Prize, Palládium Prize, Mozgó Világ Prize, Attila József Prize, and Balassa Péter Prize for her writing. A former writer-in-residence at the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) program, she is currently a professor of American Studies at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest.
Jim Tucker, a classical philologist living in Budapest, translated works from German, French, and Italian before making the acquaintance of George Konrád for whom he has translated some 35 essays from the Hungarian, in addition to works by numerous other authors.
Péter Nádas is one of Hungary's greatest authors, and has had seven volumes translated into English, including
The Book of Memories and
Parallel Stories.
Number of Pages: 270
Dimensions: 0.8 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN
Publication Date: January 15, 2019
