The New York Times nagyszerű kritikája A majom szeme (Eye of the Monkey) című regényemről:
„Novels that take on this assignment (Many characters! Many walks of life! A tortuous chronology!) tend to end up dissipated and confusing. Remarkably, Toth manages to hold our focus as the story forks in controlled, if mysterious, ways. A book that can be snaking and labyrinthine without sprawling aimlessly is – like an author who can handle elusiveness without opacity or coyness – quite a rare thing.
Toth’s choice of form, an ominous narrative web that connects many characters stuck in a country with closed borders, is far from arbitrary. These people become victims, some when they least expect it, of a system they’re complicit in; they seem autonomous but are ultimately contained by the instruments of power. It takes a closed circuit, after all, for electricity — that illuminating but critically dangerous force — to flow.”
Eye of the Monkey by Krisztina Tóth, translated from the Hungarian by Ottilie Mulzet, Seven Stories Press, 2025.
