About the Book: Baron Wenckheims Homecoming
Hailed internationally as perhaps the most important novel of the young
twenty-first century, Baron Wenckheims Homecoming is the culmination of László
Krasznahorkais remarkable and singular career. 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 towns alternately drab and absurd
existence. Spectacular actions are staged, death and