”Maids drank ground-up match heads to poison themselves and flung themselves in front of trams. Barbers dismembered their lovers. Divorcees slashed their veins with razors. Tradesmen’s apprentices leaped off the Franz Joseph Bridge. Jealous civil servants cut their wives to shreds with butcher knive...
In 1930's Budapest, a young woman dressed as a prostitute, is found dead in an alley. In her purse is a Jewish prayer bookBudapest, in 1936, was no place for a Jew, or an inquisitive newspaper editor, as Zsigmund Gordon soon discovers, once he begins his own investigation of the "non crime"A knowled...
Translated from the Hungarian by Paul Olchváry. Winner of the Sándor Márai Prize.The night before, I struck the alarm clock under my pillow so only I would hear it ring and mothere wouldn't wake up, but as it turned out I was awake even before it went off again, that's how wound up I was for the sur...
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