A01=Zoltan Danyi
Author_Zoltan Danyi
borders and migration
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contemporary Hungarian literary fiction
displacement
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fragmented narrative
literary fiction
memory
nationalism
Owen Good
post-conflict Europe
post-Yugoslav literary fiction
psychological fiction
translated fiction
war trauma
Zoltan Danyi
Product details
- ISBN 9781917653046
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 15 Oct 2026
- Publisher: Bullaun Press
- Publication City/Country: IE
- Product Form: Paperback
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A veteran of the Yugoslav Wars is hit hard by the fallout. In elegant, liquid prose Danyi conveys a bitter taste of one man's trauma. Memories collide, expand and direct the main character, while his body is also a battleground - terror lodged deep in his guts: in control of his bodily functions. The man remains nameless, identified by his preoccupation with his ex-girlfriend and his occupations: first petrol smuggler, then ex-soldier turned carcass remover, and finally dogsbody for a dodgy businessman. All the while he is crossing borders between Serbia, Croatia and Hungary, in relentless movement to alleviate his afflictions.
A visceral, yet poetic, exploration of the fragility of a man whose psyche is pushed to the limits under the stress of that most human of activities, organized military conflict, The Carcass Remover attempts to find a language to piece together a shattered world.
Zoltan Danyi was born in Senta (Serbia) in 1972. He is the author of a short story collection and several volumes of poetry and prose, including essays on the Hungarian philosopher Bela Hamvas. His two novels A doegeltakarito (The Carcass Remover, 2015) and A rozsakrol (About the Roses, 2021) have been highly acclaimed in Hungary. They are both translated into German also.
