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By László Krasznahorkai, Ottilie Mulzet (Translator)

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Infused with both humor and nihilism, László Krasznahorkai tells the story of a baron who returns home after exile only to be met with deliriousness and frenzy within the community.

WINNER OF THE 2025 NOBEL PRIZE

Now in paperback, the capstone to Krasznahorkai’s four-part masterwork, and winner of the 2019 National Book Award for Translated Literature

Set in contemporary times, Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming tells the story of a Prince Myshkin–like figure, Baron Béla Wenckheim, who returns at the end of his life to his provincial Hungarian hometown. Having escaped from his many casino debts in Buenos Aires, where he was living in exile, he longs to be reunited with his h...