Binding: Paperback,
Date of Publication: 02/11/2023,
Pagination: 192 pages,
Series: N/A,
Imprint: Peninsula Press Ltd,
Published By: Peninsula Press Ltd,
Book Classification: Fiction & related items,
Dimensions: 129 x 198 x 16
ISBN13/EAN/SKU: 9781913512392
'Our lives do not start entirely with our births.'Prussia, the early 19th century. As he attempts to bury his recently deceased wife, Redo Hauptshammer uncovers the frozen body of a uniformed soldier. As he continues to dig, the bodies start to pile up - all of them fallen cavalrymen bearing the secrets of an earlier era.
For readers of W. G. Sebald and Agustin Fernandez Mallo, this archaeological novel digs into Europe's soil, uncovering a long history of violence and expropriation. Mora's writing is audacious, melancholy, and formally experimental. Each chapter is longer than the one that precedes it – as the bodies proliferate, the story keeps getting more complicated.
In a bold yet lyrical translation by Rahul Bery, Centroeuropa introduces English-speaking readers to one of Europe's pre-eminent experimental prose writers currently at work.