Baron Wenckheims Rückkehr

"Each of my books is meant to shift the literary map." - László Krasznahorkai. Awarded the International Man Booker Prize in 2015, he achieves a masterpiece with "Baron Wenckheim's Return": a fireworks display of inexhaustible inventiveness, insightful psychology, profound themes, and absurd humor. Baron Wenckheim returns to today's Hungary: a rundown world full of losers. The exaggerated hopes of all are directed at Wenckheim. The son of the city, who gained supposed worldwide fame in Buenos Aires, is expected to save them. But too many are playing with fire, and the city is filled with mysterious tank trucks. The explosion seems imminent at any moment. With his new book, Krasznahorkai connects to his legendary novels "Satanstango" and "Melancholy of Resistance," which were celebrated as cult rediscoveries in New York.