Collins Harvill

1 Like a beast, the net came steaming up the ramp and into the sodium lamps of the trawl deck. Like a gleaming pelt, mats of red, blue, orange strips covered the mesh: plastic 'chafing hair' designed to ease the net's way over the rocks of the sea bottom. Like rank breath, the exhalation of the...

Lapélek foltosak. Könyvgerinc enyhén deformálódott. Borító kopottas, töredezett, fóliája több helyen felpöndörödött, széleit leragasztották átlátszó ragasztóval, n this acclaimed international bestseller, Claudio Magris tracks the Danube River, setting his finger on the pulse...

translator's note The people interviewed in this book, all of them in their seventies and eighties, speak in a peculiar dialect of their own. It is an idiom naturally determined by their age, their work, and their ideology: a way of speaking which combines the language of communist propaganda...