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4077200The Melancholy of Resistancehttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-melancholy-of-resistance-9781782832409/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3244688/a5d0371a-e969-486c-bca8-ef868c94ae84.jpg?v=638385086726600000203231MXNProfileInStock/Ebooks/<p><strong>Winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize</strong></p><p><em>The Melancholy of Resistance</em>, László Krasznahorkais magisterial, surreal novel, depicts a chain of mysterious events in a small Hungarian town.</p><p>A circus, promising to display the stuffed body of the largest whale in the world, arrives in the dead of winter, prompting bizarre rumours. Word spreads that the circus folk have a sinister purpose in mind, and the frightened citizens cling to any manifestation of order they can find - music, cosmology, fascism.</p><p>The novels characters are unforgettable: the evil Mrs. Eszter, plotting her takeover of the town; her weakling husband; and Valuska, our hapless hero with his head in the clouds, who is the tender centre of the book, the only pure and noble soul to be found.</p><p>Compact, powerful and intense, <em>The Melancholy of Resistance</em>, as its enormously gifted translator George Szirtes puts it, is a slow lava flow of narrative, a vast black river of type. And yet, miraculously, the novel, in the words of <em>Guardian</em>, lifts the reader along in lunar leaps and bounds.</p>...4013357The Melancholy of Resistance203231https://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-melancholy-of-resistance-9781782832409/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3244688/a5d0371a-e969-486c-bca8-ef868c94ae84.jpg?v=638385086726600000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20169781782832409_W3siaWQiOiIzNTdlMzQwYy1kMDA4LTRhNTgtODVkNS05YjBiMWU0ZDk1NWIiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjIzNCwiZGlzY291bnQiOjI4LCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjIwNiwiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjQtMTItMDFUMDA6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjpmYWxzZX1d9781782832409_<p><strong>Winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize</strong></p><p><em>The Melancholy of Resistance</em>, László Krasznahorkais magisterial, surreal novel, depicts a chain of mysterious events in a small Hungarian town.</p><p>A circus, promising to display the stuffed body of the largest whale in the world, arrives in the dead of winter, prompting bizarre rumours. Word spreads that the circus folk have a sinister purpose in mind, and the frightened citizens cling to any manifestation of order they can find - music, cosmology, fascism.</p><p>The novels characters are unforgettable: the evil Mrs. Eszter, plotting her takeover of the town; her weakling husband; and Valuska, our hapless hero with his head in the clouds, who is the tender centre of the book, the only pure and noble soul to be found.</p><p>Compact, powerful and intense, <em>The Melancholy of Resistance</em>, as its enormously gifted translator George Szirtes puts it, is a slow lava flow of narrative, a vast black river of type. And yet, miraculously, the novel, in the words of <em>Guardian</em>, lifts the reader along in lunar leaps and bounds.</p>(*_*)9781782832409_<p><strong>Winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize</strong></p><p><em>The Melancholy of Resistance</em>, László Krasznahorkais magisterial, surreal novel, depicts a chain of mysterious events in a small Hungarian town.</p><p>A circus, promising to display the stuffed body of the largest whale in the world, arrives in the dead of winter, prompting bizarre rumours. Word spreads that the circus folk have a sinister purpose in mind, and the frightened citizens cling to any manifestation of order they can find - music, cosmology, fascism.</p><p>The novels characters are unforgettable: the evil Mrs. Eszter, plotting her takeover of the town; her weakling husband; and Valuska, our hapless hero with his head in the clouds, who is the tender centre of the book, the only pure and noble soul to be found.</p><p>Compact, powerful and intense, <em>The Melancholy of Resistance</em>, as its enormously gifted translator George Szirtes puts it, is a slow lava flow of narrative, a vast black river of type. And yet, miraculously, the novel, in the words of <em>Guardian</em>, lifts the reader along in lunar leaps and bounds.</p>...9781782832409_Profilelibro_electonico_b9a6e061-90fe-3a52-a680-d67364e075d6_9781782832409;9781782832409_9781782832409Laszlo KrasznahorkaiInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/profilebooks-epub-beb3f8b7-0565-4d11-8cfc-a0966d06fdf4.epub2016-05-12T00:00:00+00:00Profile