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Ed Park

Ed Park is the author of the novels Personal Days and Same Bed Different Dreams, which will be published in November. (August 2023)

Deprivation Exercises

Deprivation Exercises

Ágota Kristóf fled her native Hungary just after the uprising of 1956 and spent the rest of her life in Switzerland, writing in French. But "all my books are about Hungary," she said a dozen years before her death.

The Illiterate

by Ágota Kristóf, translated from the French by Nina Bogin, with an introduction by Helen Oyeyemi and an afterword by Gabriel Josipovici

The Notebook, The Proof, and The Third Lie: Three Novels

by Ágota Kristóf, translated from the French by Alan Sheridan, David Watson, and Marc Romano

Collected Plays

by Ágota Kristóf, translated from the French by Bart Smet

August 17, 2023 issue

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