was born in 1971 and lives in a small village close to Pécs. He is a literary historian and lecturer at the University of Pécs. The Betrothed of the Virgin Mary is his first book at Magvető.
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Category: Milbacher
RÓBERT MILBACHER: The Betrothed of the Virgin Mary
Novel
In a village somewhere in Hungary, a place where everything that can happen to a human being does in fact happen, Józsika Bizdó, the eccentric of the village notes down everything that he sees or hears around him into a checked notebook. These stories reveal how gossip, taboo, superstition and the religious beliefs of a village community demonstrate the workings of trauma, amnesia and collective memory. Buoyant, dirty and funny, Milbacher’s prose creates a world not unlike the Macondo of One Hundred Years of Solitude, a model of human communities.
Winner of the Margó Award 2016 for Best First Book of Prose
Product details
ISBN 978 963 1433 84 5
2016, hard cover with jacket
272 pages, 125×197 mm
2990 HUF
Magvető Rights 
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