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New Directions is proud to present László Krasznahorkai, author of Satantango, his first novel and haunting masterpiece, recently translated into English for the first time. The story of an unnamed isolated hamlet beset with nothing but failure, Krasznahorkai portrays the schemes, crimes, infidelities, crushed hopes, and betrayed trust with breathtaking clarity and honesty. In a rare US appearance, he’ll read from the translation and discuss his work.

“Krasznahorkai is the contemporary Hungarian master of the apocalypse who inspires comparisons with Gogol and Melville.” — Susan Sontag

“He offers us stories that are relentlessly generative and defiantly irresolvable. They are haunting, pleasantly weird and, ultimately, bigger than the worlds they inhabit. ” — The New York Times

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