This brilliant collection is the amazing debut of a singular newvoice, capturing the post-war European immigrant world and contemporary Canadianlife. In several stories, the experience of immigration is explored through anew generation, one that cannot understand the importing of old hatreds and oldpassions. In other stories, the complexities of everyday life are depicted: ayoung couple who settle their marital differences by boxing, a man who tries tocome to terms with a friend’s suicide, a brother who looks after a seriouslydisturbed sibling.The stories in Last Notes dazzle with their intellect,wit and hidden emotional depths. A young yet mature voice, Dobozy joins theranks of celebrated new Canadian writers who are making their own sense ofhistory.

Last Notes And Other Stories

Literature & Fiction

Dobozy, Tamas

Short Stories & Anthologies

HarperCollins, Publishers

This brilliant collection is the amazing debut of a singular newvoice, capturing the post-war European immigrant world and contemporary Canadianlife. In several stories, the experience of immigration is explored through anew generation, one that cannot understand the importing of old hatreds and oldpassions. In other stories, the complexities of everyday life are depicted: ayoung couple who settle their marital differences by boxing, a man who tries tocome to terms with a friend’s suicide, a brother who looks after a seriouslydisturbed sibling.
The stories in Last Notes dazzle with their intellect,wit and hidden emotional depths. A young yet mature voice, Dobozy joins theranks of celebrated new Canadian writers who are making their own sense ofhistory.

Harper-perennial

When X Equals Marylou collects stories about photographers, balding men, ghost chasers, doppelgangers, bibliophiles and dystopian subversives, to name but a few. It’s a mix not only of characters, but of time, and of worlds—moving from Russia to Hungary to Canada, from small towns to big cities to the interior of dreams, from suburbia to welfare offices to interrogations to Alcoholics Anonymous to the Library of Alexandria.This new collection, evocative of Jonathan Lethem and Paul Auster, is a kind of beguiling miscellany, with each story opening another door, offering another glimpse, all in the hope that readers come away not so much with the experience of having read one book, but many. Threading through these stories, however, is a foreboding sense of the incongruities of life, and our desire to mathematize our responses to the bittersweet world around us.Praise for When X Equals Marylou:"I was absolutely floored by the quality of stories such as Tamas Dobozy’s When X Equals Marylou . . . easily equal to any story I’ve read."—PopMatters"A brilliant collection. His sentences move like snakes—fluid, jabbing, biting."—Michael Turner, author of Hard Core LogoTamas Dobozy has lived in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Budapest, and now teaches English at Memorial University in Newfoundland. One of the stories from When X Equals Marylou is to be published in The Chicago Review.

When X Equals Marylou

Arsenal Pulp Press

A wry, propulsive, visceral collection of stories about the afterlives of utopia, imagined and real, from the author of the Writers' Trust Prize-winning Siege 13.\nFleeing communist Budapest by air balloon, a wrestler tries to reinvent himself in Canada. On a formal invitation from the Party's General Secretary, a Belgian bureaucrat “defects” to communist Hungary, chasing the dream of a better world. Meanwhile, a provocateur filmmaker drinks and blasts his way to a final, celluloid confrontation with fascism, while an enfant terrible philosopher works on his prophetic, posthumously panned masterpiece, Dyschrony. These are among the decadent and absurd characters who hover around the promise and failure of utopia across the pages of Ghost Geographies.\nA polyphonic descendant of Kadare, Bolaño, and Sebald, Tamas Dobozy masterfully traces and thwarts the porous borders between fact, fiction, ideology, history, and humor. The stories that make up Ghost Geographies simply confirm that, in the words of the Washington Post, Tamas Dobozy's “approaches to telling stories, and his commitment not only to provoke thought but to entertain, constitute a virtuoso performance.”.

Ghost Geographies: Fictions

New Star Books

A debut collection of short fictional works includes "Tales of Hungarian Resistance," in which the children of immigrants are trapped in a cultural crossroads; "Into the Ring," a satirical reflection on the institution of marriage; and the title piece, in which a dying composer probes the connection between artistic vision and madness.

Last Notes: And Other Stories

United States

Arcade Publishing

Built around the events of the Soviet Budapest Offensive at the end of World War II and its long shadow, the stories in Siege 13 are full of wit, irony, and dark humor. In a series of linked stories that alternate between the siege itself and a contemporary community of Hungarian émigrés who find refuge in the West, Dobozy utilizes a touch of deadpan humor and a deep sense of humanity to extoll the horrors and absurdity of ordinary people caught in the crosshairs of brutal conflict and its silent aftermath. Observing the uses and mis-uses of history, and their effect on individuals and community, Dobozy examines the often blurry line between right and wrong, portraying a world in which one man’s betrayal is another man’s survival, and in which common citizens are caught between the pincers of aggressors, leading to actions at once deplorable, perplexing, and heroic. Dobozy's stories feature characters, "lost forever in the labyrinth built on the thin border between memories and reality, past and present, words and silence. Like Nabokov, Tamas Dobozy combines the best elements of European and American storytelling, creating a fictional world of his own." (David Albahari, author of Gotz and Meyer)

Siege 13: Stories

Literary

MILKWEED EDITIONS *

2012 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize -- Winner 2012 Governor General's Literary Award -- Finalist, English-Language Fiction In December of 1944, the Red Army entered Budapest to begin one of the bloodiest sieges of the Second World War. By February, the siege was over, but its effects were to be felt for decades afterward. Siege 13 is a collection of thirteen linked stories about this terrible time in history, both its historical moment, but also later, as a legacy of silence, haunting, and trauma that shadows the survivors. Set in both Budapest before and after the siege, and in the present day - in Canada, the U.S., and parts of Europe - Siege 13 traces the ripple effect of this time on characters directly involved, and on their friends, associates, sons, daughters, grandchildren, and adoptive countries. Written by one of this country's best and most internationally recognized short story authors - the story "The Restoration of the Villa Where Tibor Kallman Once Lived" won the 2011 O. Henry Prize for short fiction - Siege 13 is an intelligent, emotional, and absorbing cycle of stories about war, family, loyalty, love and redemption.

Thomas Allen Publishers

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Last Notes And Other Stories

Last Notes And Other Stories

When X Equals Marylou

Ghost Geographies: Fictions

Last Notes: And Other Stories

Siege 13: Stories

Siege 13: Stories