The Pork Butcher

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A selection of reviews of Dávid Hughes's previous növel The Imperial Germán dinner service 'Every so often we read a book that we label "a gem". Just such is Dávid Hughes's ... In concept and achievement it comes high on the scales of perfection. It alsó has considerable narrative power ... The story, üke the dinner service, is made with precision and style.' Martyn Goff, The Daily Telegraph 'His books are perfectly organised, highly professional and thoroughly modern. They are sensitive without being unreadable, and they have plots that make a pattern, that offer an oblique vision, of the real world. The Imperial Germán dinner service is written with a freshness and put together with a skill that must mean Dávid Hughes is still developing. He is a miniatűré novelist, or at least he has written miniatűré novels. This one is readable, entertaining, plausible as a fiction, and I think morally true. In this generation minor prose writers are best... In the end, the növel turns out very... Tovább

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A selection of reviews of Dávid Hughes's previous növel The Imperial Germán dinner service 'Every so often we read a book that we label "a gem". Just such is Dávid Hughes's ... In concept and achievement it comes high on the scales of perfection. It alsó has considerable narrative power ... The story, üke the dinner service, is made with precision and style.' Martyn Goff, The Daily Telegraph 'His books are perfectly organised, highly professional and thoroughly modern. They are sensitive without being unreadable, and they have plots that make a pattern, that offer an oblique vision, of the real world. The Imperial Germán dinner service is written with a freshness and put together with a skill that must mean Dávid Hughes is still developing. He is a miniatűré novelist, or at least he has written miniatűré novels. This one is readable, entertaining, plausible as a fiction, and I think morally true. In this generation minor prose writers are best... In the end, the növel turns out very sweetly to be about love. The language is clipped but the sentiment powerfully simple.' Peter Levi, The Spectator 'Here is a book, then, with a theme, with thoughts and emotion, a strong sense of past and present and a feeling, behind it all, of light and gaiety - a pleasure to read.' Hilary Bailey, The Guardian 'Dávid Hughes writes extraordinarily well, dispensing with Tacitean economy a mixture of cool apergus, hilariously acid throwaway lines of description ... and offering postcard-length vignettes of the lands through which his hero passes. The story moves along with dizzying speed, allowing the reader to suspend sizeable amounts of disbelief at its coincidental twists and emotional turns ... the book has such unity of style, takes such a fresh and angry look at the debris of the century, and deploys so many incidental delights, that one is carried unprotestingly through its síim length. Few writers could make the collecting of plates an exciting prospect; fewer still could turn it enjoyably into a convincing metaphor for spiritual fulfilment.' John Walsh, Books & Bookmen Vissza