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György Korin, an archivist in a provincial Hungarian town, finds an ancient manuscript and travels to New York to put it on the internet before he takes his own life.
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Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming
Baron Béla Wenckheim, a gambler who has spent years in exile in Argentina, comes back to his Hungarian home town to find his first love, and the town prepares to welcome a saviour.
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Florian Herscht, a gentle giant in a small town in Thuringia, writes letter after letter to Angela Merkel warning her of the end of the universe, while the neo-Nazis around him have other plans.
Kaddish for an Unborn Child
A Hungarian writer who survived Auschwitz explains, in one long monologue, why he refused to have a child.
The Spire
Dean Jocelin, convinced he has been chosen by God, drives his medieval cathedral to build a four-hundred-foot spire on foundations that cannot bear it.
The Unnamable
A voice, placeless and without a body it can be sure of, talks on and on, trying to say who it is and to stop talking.
Solenoid
A failed writer teaching Romanian at a Bucharest school in the 1980s keeps a diary of his dreams, his memories and the strange machine buried under his house.
The Passion According to G.H.
G.H., a well-off sculptor in Rio de Janeiro, goes to tidy the room her maid has just left, finds a cockroach in the wardrobe, and in the hours that follow loses hold of everything she thought she was.
Remainder
After an accident he can't remember leaves him with eight and a half million pounds in compensation, a young Londoner spends it restaging, with hired actors and in exact detail, fleeting moments in which he once felt real.
Fatelessness
György Köves, a fourteen-year-old Budapest Jew, is taken off a bus in 1944 and deported to Auschwitz and then Buchenwald, and tells it all in a flat, almost uncomprehending voice.
The Infatuations
María Dolz, an editor at a Madrid publishing house, has watched a happy couple at her café every morning, until she reads that the husband has been stabbed to death in the street, and she befriends his widow.
Mysteries
Johan Nagel, a stranger in a yellow suit, steps off a steamer into a small Norwegian coastal town one summer and unsettles everyone with his lies, gifts and provocations.
Journey by Moonlight
Mihály, a Hungarian businessman on honeymoon in Italy, gets on the wrong train in Venice, leaves his wife behind and drifts back towards the past and the friends of his youth.