Örömhír!
A majom szeme (Eye of the Monkey) kétszer is szerepelt ezen a héten a NYTimes.com-on.
Alább olvashatóak a lelkes recenziók:
„In an unnamed Central European country, scarred by a civil war and buckling under an autocrat, citizens are deeply segregated by class and constantly surveilled. But the machinations of the United Regency, as the government is called in this novel, are hardly the focus; instead, the story traces the lives and travails of a handful of characters, including a psychiatrist who seduces his patient, as they confront dead-end choices. Toth is an acclaimed Hungarian writer and has written one of the most elegant, disorienting novels I’ve read this year: It’s funny and evenhanded enough that the finale arrives as a devastating fait accompli. And Mulzet’s translation is feverishly good.”
— Joumana Khatib, editor and newsletter writer
„I was also mesmerized by “Eye of the Monkey,” a new novel by the Hungarian poet Krisztina Toth about love and death in an unnamed autocracy. She describes how the more baffling and absurd everything gets, the more people cling to the scraps they can control: “His habits, routes, movements were a handhold; without them, he might lose his sense of orientation completely.”
— Jennifer Szalai