Centroeuropa
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Author: Vicente Luis Mora
Winner of the PEN Translates Award Winner 2022 and the Malaga Prize 2019, 'Centroeuropa' cements Vicente Luis Mora's reputation as one of Europe's pre-eminent experimental writers. An archaeological novel that digs into the strata of the European soil, and uncovers a long history of oppression, expropriation and erasure. Audacious and wickedly funny, it is introduced to the English-speaking world through a bold yet lyrical translation by Rahul Bery.At the dawn of the nineteenth century, European feudalism is starting to crumble. Newly widowed, Redo Hauptshammer arrives in a small Prussian town to claim a plot of arable land and the simple life of a freehold farmer. Digging a grave, Redo finds the body of a soldier. The next day, Redo uncovers two soldiers from an earlier time, perfectly preserved.It contains the story of Redo’s mysterious life, and the great love at the heart of it, revealed in chapters of increasing length: as the bodies proliferate, the story gets more complicated. What will be excavated from the earth, and what will remain buried?“Male, Prussian, Hussar soldier, frozen. That was the first body I found while digging in the frozen earth to bury my wife...”
ISBN 9781913512392. Peninsula Press. pb. 192 pages. 12.9 x 19.8 cm.
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Winner of the PEN Translates Award Winner 2022 and the Malaga Prize 2019, 'Centroeuropa' cements Vicente Luis Mora's reputation as one of Europe's pre-eminent experimental writers. An archaeological novel that digs into the strata of the European soil, and uncovers a long history of oppression, expropriation and erasure. Audacious and wickedly funny, it is introduced to the English-speaking world through a bold yet lyrical translation by Rahul Bery.At the dawn of the nineteenth century, European feudalism is starting to crumble. Newly widowed, Redo Hauptshammer arrives in a small Prussian town to claim a plot of arable land and the simple life of a freehold farmer. Digging a grave, Redo finds the body of a soldier. The next day, Redo uncovers two soldiers from an earlier time, perfectly preserved.It contains the story of Redo’s mysterious life, and the great love at the heart of it, revealed in chapters of increasing length: as the bodies proliferate, the story gets more complicated. What will be excavated from the earth, and what will remain buried?“Male, Prussian, Hussar soldier, frozen. That was the first body I found while digging in the frozen earth to bury my wife...”
ISBN 9781913512392. Peninsula Press. pb. 192 pages. 12.9 x 19.8 cm.
available