{"product_id":"making-skeletons-dance-9781803094144","title":"Making Skeletons Dance","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn introduction to the work of acerbic Slovak writer Peter Macsovszky.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Simon Blef, who comes from \"a small, stifling country without a sea\" in some corner of Europe, has gone to live in the Netherlands. There he has found a wife and hopes he may yet find work. He is making preparations: he carries around a notebook and jots down his thoughts. One day he would like to write a novel, but in the meantime, he records, embellishes, invents, and combines what he sees with what he dreams: the happy, hard-working Dutch, with their seventy-year-old hippies--the \"superannuated generation of rockers\"-- and their new \"sexless generation,\" as well as the tourists and immigrants from beyond the seven seas. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Set in a single day, \u003ci\u003eMaking Skeletons Dance\u003c\/i\u003e is full of impressionistic musings, in equal measure mordant and humorous. Simon has left his small unhappy country to get away from the past--but how is it that the past is so devilishly resourceful, liable to turn up in any Amsterdam pub? As the afternoon wears on, the drama of his life unfolds in fascinating detail, be it comedy or tragedy, or both.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Macsovszky\u003c\/b\u003e writes in Slovak and Hungarian. He is the author of various collections of experimental lyrical texts, and his novel \u003ci\u003eTantalópolis \u003c\/i\u003ereceived the Anasoft Litera Prize in 2015. \u003cb\u003eJohn Minahane\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Ireland and has lived and worked in Slovakia since 1996. He has been translating Slovak literature into English for twenty years.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Seagull Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51475232522514,"sku":"9781803094144","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_945289a6-a476-49d0-8a00-e8012a801b0a.jpg?v=1752590080","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/making-skeletons-dance-9781803094144","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}