From one of the most important authors to have emerged after the fall of communism in Hungary, this novel offers a grueling, poignant exploration of family history in Hungary's Jewish community and the nation's deep complicity in the Holocaust.

Gábor Schein is a highly acclaimed author of poetry and fiction; he has translated contemporary and classical German and English poets. Ottilie Mulzet has translated the work of László Krasznahorkai, Szilárd Borbély, and László Földényi, among others.