Copyright © 1992 by Ádám Bodor

Translation copyright © 2013 by Paul Olchváry

Originally published as Sinistra Körzet by Magvető Könyvkiadó in 1992 and published by arrangement with Acontilado, Barcelona.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Bodor, Ádám.

[Sinistra körzet. English]

The sinistra zone / Ádám Bodor ; translated from the Hungarian by Paul

Olchváry.

pages cm

eISBN 978-0-8112-1979-2

1. Totalitarianism — Fiction.  I. Olchváry, Paul. II. Title.

 PH3213.B518S5613 2013

 894'.511334—dc23

                                                           2012050353

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