Sátántango Belknap Press A Selection of the Crafters

A Selection of the Crafters Choice Book Club

'Could not be more enjoyable

Lady Slane nurtures a secret

When her teacher starts facing challenges for her latest book selection

Sátántango Belknap Press A Selection of the CraftersTranslated by George Szirtes. In the darkening embers of a Communist utopia, life in a desolate Hungarian town has come to a virtual standstill. Flies buzz, spiders weave, water drips and animals root desultorily in the barnyard of a collective farm. But when the charismatic Irimias long thought dead returns, the villagers fall under his spell. Irimias sets about swindling the villagers out of a fortune that might allow them to escape the emptiness