It's raining in Moscow
Zsuzsa Selyem (Author), Erika Mihálycsa (Translator), P. A. Sherwood (Translator)
" ... A novel that goes both beyond and stays this side of history -- the history of a family, of the post-1945 deportations, of a multiethnic region in Eastern Europe, Transylvania, in the 20th century, of the interactions of animals, plants and humans, where for once the text inhabits the non-human perspectives. A novel that repeatedly asks the question, what do we need to face our own lies and the lies of others; what do we accept as truth if we are dispossessed, left to our own means and entirely alone in the wasteland, or in the torture chamber? Eleven stories from the short 20th century -- the defining events in the life of a man, István Beczássy, the author's grandfather, from sexual initiation to interrogation and torture at the hands of the Securitate, the secret police of communist Romania, narrated mostly from animal perspectives ..."-- Back cover
Print Book, English, 2020
First Contra Mundum Press edition
Contra Mundum Press, New York, NY, 2020