Description: #145;Sherwood's translation is noteworthy skillful but unobtrusive. Lauded in Szcsi's native Hungary and popular in Europe, this tale of an awkward vampire amuses; the disaffected protagonist and the inherent absurdity of vampires in a mundane setting provide a looking glass with which to examine modern life.' - Publishers Weekly #145;Written in 2001, long before the recent teenage craze for the Twilight films, The Finno-Ugrian Vampire now appears in Peter Sherwood's skilful and entertaining translationamusing postmodernist farceIf at first she [Jerne] believes literature might provide an alternative to the vocation of vampirehood, maturity yields the discovery that authors feed on each other just as voraciously as do bloodsuckers on the living.' Zsuzsanna Varga, - The Times Literary Supplement #145;Most innovative, trenchant vampire taleTwo engines drive this most unconventional bildungsroman: Jerne's witty, sardonic narrative voice and Grandma."It's her [Jerne] voicemisogynistic, wry, astute, and unfailingly deadpanthat keeps us rapidly turning pages even as we savor every sentence.The Finno-Ugrian Vampire belongs at the top of your must-read" list.' - Michael A. Morrison, World Literature Today "The book uses innovative means of the highest literary standard and a dynamic, natural and yet ironic style as it pumps fresh blood into the anaemic arteries of the vampire myth" - Hungarian Literature Online "The Finno-Ugrian Vampire (trans. Peter Sherwood), a linguistic tour-de-force and play on myths" - Rosie Goldsmith, BBC journalist and presenter of Crossing Continents

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