The Carcass Remover
£12.99
A veteran of the Yugoslav Wars is hit hard by the fallout. In elegant, liquid prose Danyi conveys a bitter taste of one man’s trauma. Memories collide, expand and direct the main character, while his body is also a battleground – terror lodged deep in his guts: in control of his bodily functions. The man remains nameless – identified by his preoccupation with his ex-girlfriend and his occupations: first petrol smuggler, then ex-soldier turned carcass remover, and finally dogsbody for a dodgy businessman. All the while he is crossing borders between Serbia, Croatia and Hungary, in relentless movement to alleviate his afflictions.
A visceral, yet poetic, exploration of the fragility of a man whose psyche is pushed to the limits under the stress of that most human of activities, organized military conflict, The Carcass Remover attempts to find a language to piece together a shattered world.
Winner of the Miklós Mészöly Prize, the Tibor Déry Prize and the Milán Füst Prize
Zoltán Danyi
Zoltán Danyi was born in Senta (Serbia) in 1972. He is the author of a short story collection and several volumes of poetry and prose, including essays on the Hungarian philosopher Béla Hamvas. His two novels A dögeltakarító (The Carcass Remover, 2015) and A rózsákról (About the Roses, 2021) have been highly acclaimed in Hungary. They are both translated into German also.