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FICTION
MAY 2008
13X20 CM
PAPERBACK
279PP £8.99
ISBN: 1846590345

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Ferenc Karinthy was a novelist, playwright, journalist, and water polo champion. He is the author of over a dozen novels. This is the first to be translated into English.
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Then the lady with the green hat jumps up from her seat, throws herself at the witness box and hugs the witness maniacally. Timid and clumsy, he tries to hold on to her, but she stumbles backwards, shrieks, and the confusion is complete.

The one who seems most perturbed throughout all this is the insignificant little man, blinking nervously, who's desperately trying to catch her ... This time, for once, Budai doesn't even try to make sense of the situation. Even if he could speak their language he's not convinced he would understand.


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'With time, Metropole will find its due place in the twentieth-century library, on the same shelf as The Trial and 1984.' - G.O. Châteaureynaud
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