The Bone Fire: A Novel
feb. 2021 · HarperCollins
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"A story in which dreams and phantasms are kinder . . . than the random brutality of the concrete world. . . . [the] telling is not just magic, but enchantment." —Rebecca Makkai, New York Times Book Review
Thirteen-year-old Emma grows up under an Eastern European dictatorship where oppression seems eternal. When her dissident parents die in a car accident, she's taken to an orphanage, only to be adopted soon after by a grandmother she has never met.
While her homeland is shattered by a violent revolution, Emma comes to learn the ways of her new grandmother, who can tell fortunes from coffee dregs, cause and heal pain at will, and shares her home with the ghost of her husband. But this is not the main reason her grandmother is treated with suspicion and contempt by most people in town. They suspect her or her husband of having been involved in the disappearance of top secret government files.
As Emma learns her family history, she begins to see that, for her grandparents, the alternate reality shaped by magic was their only form of freedom.
A New York Times Editors' Choice
"Dragomán puts us in the middle of our most wondrous and terrifying childhood fairytales, somehow unhazing their dreaminess and replicating their electrifying uncertainty all at once." —Téa Obreht, New York Times bestselling author of Inland and The Tiger's Wife
"As sinister as it is stunningly beautiful. It is the work of a master." —Julia Phillips, author of Disappearing Earth
"Nested in this novel's magical setting is the darkly-glinting stone of a turbulent political history of secrets, betrayals, ghosts, and memory. . . . It will pierce you like a knitting needle." — Forrest Gander, Pulitzer Prize wininng author of Twice Alive
Thirteen-year-old Emma grows up under an Eastern European dictatorship where oppression seems eternal. When her dissident parents die in a car accident, she's taken to an orphanage, only to be adopted soon after by a grandmother she has never met.
While her homeland is shattered by a violent revolution, Emma comes to learn the ways of her new grandmother, who can tell fortunes from coffee dregs, cause and heal pain at will, and shares her home with the ghost of her husband. But this is not the main reason her grandmother is treated with suspicion and contempt by most people in town. They suspect her or her husband of having been involved in the disappearance of top secret government files.
As Emma learns her family history, she begins to see that, for her grandparents, the alternate reality shaped by magic was their only form of freedom.
A New York Times Editors' Choice
"Dragomán puts us in the middle of our most wondrous and terrifying childhood fairytales, somehow unhazing their dreaminess and replicating their electrifying uncertainty all at once." —Téa Obreht, New York Times bestselling author of Inland and The Tiger's Wife
"As sinister as it is stunningly beautiful. It is the work of a master." —Julia Phillips, author of Disappearing Earth
"Nested in this novel's magical setting is the darkly-glinting stone of a turbulent political history of secrets, betrayals, ghosts, and memory. . . . It will pierce you like a knitting needle." — Forrest Gander, Pulitzer Prize wininng author of Twice Alive
"A story in which dreams and phantasms are kinder . . . than the random brutality of the concrete world. . . . [the] telling is not just magic, but enchantment." —Rebecca Makkai, New York Times Book Review
Thirteen-year-old Emma grows up under an Eastern European dictatorship where oppression s...
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Novelist and translator GYÖRGY DRAGOMÁN was born in Transylvania in 1973 and moved to Hungary when he was fifteen. His first novel, The White King, has been translated into more than twenty languages and went on to win the Sandor Márai Prize and the Jan Michaelski Prize. Dragomán lives in Budapest with his wife and two children. Translated from the Hungarian by PAUL OLCHVÁRY.
OTTILIE MULZET is a Hungarian translator of poetry and prose, as well as a literary critic. She has worked as the English-language editor of the internet journal of the Hungarian Cultural Centre in Prague, and her translations appear regularly at Hungarian Literature Online. She has won the National Translation Award, the Best Translated Book Award, and was awarded the 2015 Man Booker International Prize for her work on László Krasznahorkai (together with George Szirtes). She lives in Prague.
Novelist and translator GYÖRGY DRAGOMÁN was born in Transylvania in 1973 and moved to Hungary when he was fifteen. His first novel, The White King, has been translated into more than twenty languages and went on to win the Sandor Márai Prize and the Jan Michaelski Prize. Dragomán lives in Budapes...
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