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The Dispossessed is a great sui generis book that, for all its cultural differences, touches us deeply. We recognize it as tragic, truthful and visionary wherever we are. George Szirtes, New York Times Book ReviewThis hypnotic, hauntingly beautiful first novel from the acclaimed, awardwinning poet and author Szilrd Borbly depicts the poverty and cruelty experienced by a partly Jewish family in a rural village in the late 1960s and early 1970s.In a tiny village in northeast Hungary, close to the Romanian border, a young, unnamed boy warily observes daytoday life and chronicles his familys struggles to survive. Like most of the villagers, his family is desperately poor, but their situation is worse than mostthey are ostracized because of his fathers Jewish heritage and his mothers connections to the Kulaks, who once owned land and supported the fascist Horthy regime before it was toppled by Communists.With unflinching candor, the little boys observations are related through a variety of narrative voicescrude diatribes from his alcoholic father, evocative and lyrical tales of the past from his grandparents, and his own simple yet potent prose. Together, these accounts reveal not only the history of his family but that of Hungary itself, through the physical and psychic traumas of two World Wars to the countrys treatment of Jews, both past and present.Drawing heavily on Borblys memories of his own childhood, The Dispossessed is an extraordinarily realistic novel. Raw and often brutal, yet glimmering with hope, it is the crowning achievement of an uncompromising talent.
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