Home
Published on 15. April 2024
362 pages
978-1-912545-45-2 (ISBN)
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Prompted by a class reunion, Home deals with the experience of homecoming after extended absence and engages with the archaeology of the self in the context of estrangement and belonging. Having taken the decision to emigrate decades earlier, Tompa's unnamed protagonist is caught between two worlds, navigating a journey from one homeland to another, and suddenly facing an upsurge of revelations that have a strong emotional impact.
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Andrea Tompa is a Hungarian writer born in Romania in 1971. She studied Russian literature in Budapest, Hungary, worked as a theatre critic and editor, and lectures on performing arts. She has published four novels. The Hangman's House (Seagull Books), in Bernard Adam's translation, was nominated for the 2022 Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize. She lives in Budapest.
