A new collection from Krisztina Tóth, To Get a Glimpse of Sky includes her most recent short stories. Bringing out her full repertoire, these writings are a mixed bag: some elegaic, others surreal, even bordering on the grotesquely weird, and all adding up to a detailed diagnosis of the world around us. Even the most trivial situations are snapped into drama by unforeseeable events and encounters that elicit pain, suppressed desires, grief and loss.
Characters in Krisztina Tóth’s stories do their best to keep their lives going, doing their shopping, going to work, taking care of business; yet their everyday routines get disrupted by the turbulence of human relationships and their resurfacing past, exposing their vulnerabilities. The story of a ruined marriage is told through a cycle of plastic food packagings. A grandmother takes her grandchild for the holidays, and meets another vacationer prompting her to confront her yearnings for a better life. An ordinary guy suddenly dies from Covid, only to be exposed posthumously as a pedophile.
Tóth is a master of the short story; she is insightful, witty, and a shrewd observer, undoubtedly one of the best authors of her generation.
Snapshots of our present world from a Hungarian master of the short story
Product details
ISBN 978 963 14 4273 1
2023, hardback
160 pages, 3999 HUF
Magvető Rights 
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