| The Ninth A Novel | | | Author:
| Barnas, Ferenc | | Translator:
| Olchvary, Paul | | Series title: | Writings from an Unbound Europe Ser. | | ISBN: | 978-0-8101-2602-2 | | Publication Date: | Apr 2009 | | Publisher: | Northwestern University Press
| | Book Format: | Paperback | | List Price: | USD $16.95 | Book Description:
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Set in a sleepy village north of Budapest in 1968, this touching, unsettling novel paints a richly wrought portrait of mid-twentieth-century Hungary. The narrator is the ninth child of a family distinguished by its size, poverty, faith, and abundance of physical and psychological disabilities. Set in a sleepy village north of Budapest in 1968, this touching, unsettling novel paints a richly wrought portrait of mid-twentieth-century Hungary. The narrator is the ninth child of a family distinguished by its size, poverty, faith, and abundance of physical and psychological disabilities. | |