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“This beautifully produced volume, containing the title novella and three short stories, gives a useful introduction to a writer who epitomizes the generation that came of age during the period of post-communist transition.”

— Charles Sabatos,

“Balla loves the absurd and mysterious, is a master of magic realism and postmodernism, and, most importantly, is able “to express the unspeakable” with frankness unprecedented in �������� literature.”

— Zuzana Slobodová,

“I loved this book. Bizarre and beautiful, intense and passionate, the writing is so fresh.”

— Rosie Goldsmith,
Director of the European Literature Network

“Reading Balla is like getting on a roller coaster and behaving in an age-appropriate manner: you never know what’s coming, you scream and shout, now in fear, now in joy.”

— Gábor Németh,
Hungarian author

One of World Literature Today’s Notable Translations of 2017

Longlisted for the 2018 European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Literature Prize

Voted Book of the Year by the �������� daily SME in December 2012 and won the 2012 Anasoft Litera Prize, ��������ia’s most prestigious award for an original work of fiction.