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The narrative explores the revival of a derelict Hungarian cinema, reflecting on its historical significance and the communal experiences it once fostered. As the narrator journeys through the Great Alfold, she becomes captivated by the cinema's past, viewing it as a "dream in a glass coffin." The story intertwines the perspectives of the town's remaining residents with the physical remnants of the theater, celebrating the magic of cinema as a space for collective imagination and a ritualistic escape from reality.

In Rombo, seven inhabitants of a remote mountain village in Friuli talk about the impact of the the 1976 earthquake that has left marks they are slowly learning to name.

An unnamed narrator, recently bereaved, travels to Olevano, a small village southeast of Rome. Written in a rich and poetic style, Grove is an exquisite novel of grief, love and landscapes.

On a series of solitary walks around London, a woman recalls the rivers she's encountered in prose reminiscent of Sebald.

In River, a woman takes long, solitary walks by the River Lea, observing and describing her surroundings and the unusual characters she encounters. River is a remarkable novel, full of poignant images and poetic observations - an ode to nature, edgelands, and the transience of all things human.

Summer Resort, the first novel by noted translator Esther Kinsky, is set in a village somewhere on the endless Hungarian plain. It is the hottest summer in memory and everyone in the village dreams of the sweet life in Üdülö, a summer resort on a river. The characters that populate Summer Resort tell stories--comic, tragic, or both--of life in rural Hungary. Tales of onion kings and melon pickers, of scrapyards and sugar beet factories, paint a vivid and human picture of their world. In the course of the novel, the storytellers' paths intersect at the summer resort with the bar owner Lacibacsi, the Kozak Boys and their fat and pale wives, and the builder Antal, who introduces a mysterious new woman to the inhabitants of the resort. The stranger disrupts their otherwise staid summer routines--with surprising, unpredictable consequences. Now available for the first time in English, Summer Resort brings to a new audience one of the most distinctive emerging voices in recent German writing.