About the Book: War and War
Winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize War and War begins at a point
of danger: on a dark train platform Korim is on the verge of being attacked and
robbed by thuggish teenagers. From here, we are carried along by the insistent
voice of this nervous clerk. Desperate, at times almost mad, but also keenly
empathic, Korim has discovered in a small Hungarian towns archives an antique
manuscript of startling beauty: it narrates the epic tale of brothers-in-arms
struggling to return home from a disastrous war. Korim is determined to do away
with himself, but before he commits suicide,