The Ninth
by Ferenc Barnás
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Set in a sleepy village north of Budapest in 1968, this touching, unsettling novel paints a richly wrought portrait of mid-twentieth-century Hungary. The narrator is the ninth child of a family distinguished by its size, poverty, faith, and abundance of physical and psychological disabilities. His confusion is exacerbated by the strict, secretive Catholic household his parents keep in the face of a Communist system. These dual oppressions propel him toward an inevitable realization of his show more guilt and desire that speaks to his struggle with a fateful, seamless beauty. show lessTags
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- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Historical Fiction
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- 894.51134 — Literature & rhetoric Asian Literature Literatures of Altaic, Uralic, Hyperborean, Dravidian languages; literatures of miscellaneous languages of south Asia Finno-Ugric languages Ugric languages Hungarian Hungarian fiction 2000–
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- PH3382.12 .A74 .K5513 — Language and Literature Uralic languages. Basque language Uralic. Basque Hungarian
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