Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming (Hb)

Nearing the end of his life, Baron Bela Wenckheim decides to return to the provincial Hungarian town of his birth. Having escaped from his many casino debts in Buenos
Aires, where he was living in exile, he wishes to be reunited with his high-school sweetheart Marika. What follows is an endless storm of gossip, con men and local
politicians, vividly evoking the small town's alternately drab and absurd existence Meanwhile, the Professor - a world-famous natural scientist who studies mosses and
inhabits a bizarre Zen-like shack in a desolate area outside of town - offers long rants and disquisitions on his own attempts to immunise himself from thought. Spectacular
actions are staged, death and the abyss loom, until finally doom is brought down on the unsuspecting residents of the town.
Hailed internationally as perhaps the most important novel of the young twenty-first century, Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming is the culmination of László Krasznahorkai's
remarkable and singular career.