Terézia Mora

A strange novel, part picaresque, part hallucination, and sometimes it almost makes a whole lot of sense. Able Nema's main skill is learning languages. Officially he knows ten. His only other skill seems to be a sporadic ability to pass himself off as normal. We follow him for ten years that he spends as a refugee (in Berlin ?) from an unnamed Balkan country. He has various adventures meeting colorful characters who are almost as weird as he is.

A strange book, but I enjoyed it.

A strange, quirky read. Difficult to rate; I think I liked it, but I could easily read it a second time and hate it, and a third time and love it.