Synopsis
Winner of the 2025 nobel prize a dark, haunting masterpiece by the author of the melancholy of resistance and seiobo there below now in paperback, satantango, the novel that inspired béla tarr’s classic film, is proof that the devil has all the good times. Set in an isolated hamlet, the novel unfolds over the course of a few rain-soaked days. Only a dozen inhabitants remain in the bleak village, rank with the stench of failed schemes, betrayals, failure, infidelity, sudden hopes, and aborted dreams.
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