Peter Macsovszky writes in Slovak and Hungarian. He is the author of various collections of experimental lyrical texts, and his novel Tantalópolis received the Anasoft Litera Prize in 2015. John Minahane was born in Ireland and has lived and worked in Slovakia since 1996. He has been translating Slovak literature into English for twenty years.

“Macsovszký’s book is full of skeletons: they are not only in the title and the English quote from the Indian author’s book on the title page, in the fascinating paintings of famous masters, they appear in childhood memories, they are present in the narrator's spontaneously jumping imaginations. They are mostly made of paper, they sway in the breeze and directly or indirectly proclaim their paper truth about human life, until finally they change into philosophical skeletons at the end of the novel, pulling down all the reason of this highly sophisticated work, in which not only the narrator’s sarcastic humor freezes, but also apparently the blood of the reader.”

Peter Macsovszky writes in Slovak and Hungarian. He is the author of various collections of experimental lyrical texts, and his novel Tantalópolis received the Anasoft Litera Prize in 2015. John Minahane was born in Ireland and has lived and worked in Slovakia since 1996. He has been translating Slovak literature into English for twenty years.

“Macsovszký’s book is full of skeletons: they are not only in the title and the English quote from the Indian author’s book on the title page, in the fascinating paintings of famous masters, they appear in childhood memories, they are present in the narrator's spontaneously jumping imaginations. They are mostly made of paper, they sway in the breeze and directly or indirectly proclaim their paper truth about human life, until finally they change into philosophical skeletons at the end of the novel, pulling down all the reason of this highly sophisticated work, in which not only the narrator’s sarcastic humor freezes, but also apparently the blood of the reader.”