Destruction and Sorrow Beneath the Heavens: Reportage

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Destruction and Sorrow Beneath the Heavens: Reportage

Name: Destruction and Sorrow Beneath the Heavens: Reportage
ISBN: 9780857423115

László Krasznahorkai, Ottilie Mulzet (translator)

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Destruction & Sorrow beneath the Heavens is both a travel memoir & the chronicle of a distinct intellectual shift as one of the most captivating contemporary writers & thinkers begins to engage with the cultures of Asia & the legacies of its interactions with Europe in a newly globalized society.

Rendered in English by award-winning translator Ottilie Mulzet, Destruction & Sorrow beneath the Heavens is an important work, marking the emergence of Krasznahorkai as a truly global novelist.

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László Krasznahorkai, an innovative Hungarian writer, was announced as the sixth Man Booker International Prize winner in 2015. Krasznahorkai chose to split the prize between two translators; George Szirtes (who translated Satantango & The Melancholy of Resistance) & Ottilie Mulzet (who translated Seiobo There Below). Krasznahorkai is known for critically difficult & demanding novels, often labelled as postmodern, with dystopian & bleak melancholic themes.