THE GIRL, WHO DIDN’T SPEAK
Krisztina Tóth’s story intertwines in a unique way the stories of a girl born in a basket, her parents and her three siblings. Can the abandoned child find a home? Who will raise her as her mother and father? Will she ever see her biological parents? How will the siblings find each other? Their fates […]
AQUARIUM
In this novel, everyone is an orphan. The little girl adopted in the late 1940s, her foster parents, her own child, her husband, all her relatives and acquaintances: without exception, everyone considers the lack of love to be the accepted, only livable condition. These people live their difficult lives in a dilapidated, crumbling, vegetable-smelling hallway, […]
BARCODE
First published in Hungary in 2006, Krisztina Tóth’s first substantial work in prose after four volumes of remarkable verse, consists of fifteen beautifully written and highly sensual short stories. Most are narrated with poetic intensity and intimacy from a young, unnamed female narrator’s point of view. Whether about childhood acquaintances, school camps and trips, or […]