In a scruffy park of a West European metropolis, a man in an ill-fitting trench coat is found hanging by the feet, half-dead. This is Abel Nema, the enigmatic yet fascinating protagonist of Terézia Moras internationally acclaimed novel, a linguistic phenomenon who can speak ten languages flawlessly but whose grip on reality is slowly slipping away. Since his self-imposed exile from his Balkan homeland ten years earlier, he has been making a life among fellow refugees: a group of bohemian jazz musicians, an eccentric student of ancient history, and a gang of young Gypsies. His acquaintances among the locals include a neighbor who claims to have visited heaven (and introduces Abel to hallucinogens), the sordid characters who frequent the neighborhood sex bar, and a wonderfully zany family he joins when, desperate to extend his residency permit, he enters into a fictive marriage. Yet through it all he remains strangely hollow: for all his languages he has little humanity to put into words. Day In Day Out, Terézia Moras fierce and beautiful debut novel, is at once an evocation of the newly multicultural Europe and an exploration of a deeply disturbed individual. It is a prose labyrinth of rare poetic force that marks its author as a major new voice in contemporary fiction.
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Terézia Mora
Terézia Mora é atualmente uma das mais importantes vozes da literatura de língua alemã. Escritora, roteirista e renomada tradutora do húngaro, nasceu em 1971 em Sopron, Hungria, cresceu e educou-se no ambiente bilíngue da família de minoria alemã. Em 1990, no contexto das transformações políticas que culminaram na queda do Muro, muda-se para Berlim para estudar Hungarologia e Teoria Teatral. Além de romances e contos, Mora também escreveu roteiros, peças e ensaios. Recebeu vários prêmios importantes, incluindo o Prêmio Ingeborg Bachmann (1999), o Prêmio da Feira do Livro de Leipzig (2005) e o Prêmio do Livro Alemão (2013). Em 2018, ganha o mais importante prêmio de literatura alemã, o Prêmio Georg Büchner, pelo conjunto de sua obra.
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