White Wolf
Sixteen Stories
Krisztina Tóth author Owen Good translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Seagull Books London Ltd
Publishing:5th Apr '26
£15.99
This title is due to be published on 5th April, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
A powerful collection of sixteen unsettling stories that delve into the hidden traumas of everyday life.
“Every home is a different story,” says one narrator in White Wolf while looking for her own childhood home. Every unhappy home is unhappy in its own way—and so are the stories in Krisztina Tóth’s new volume, in which the writer’s voice is darker and more radical than ever.
These are stories of trauma, oppression, submission, exclusion, stigma, and violence. Many of them tell of childhood abuses, unpunished crimes, lost children—suffering that goes without punishment, apology, and forgiveness. Her mostly nameless heroes are everywhere around us, stepping into the same elevator, running behind us on the staircase. Many of them are so wounded or tormented that they behave in strange ways. In White Wolf, Tóth observes these characters with acute sensitivity and attentiveness to detail.
“Addresses the crises facing Europe today: the influx of immigrants and resulting xenophobia, mounting anti-Semitism and anti-Roma bigotry, the validity of the European Union versus nation-specific loyalties. . . . Even as Tóth slices her characters into single limbs and facial features, there’s no escaping their interconnectedness. In this way, Tóth makes the concept of a national 'border' seem laughably arbitrary.” -- LitHub * Praise for “Pixel” *
“Reading Eye of the Monkey is like peering into the abyss and finding your consciousness forever altered. You cannot escape this book, you already hear its thunder!” -- Elfriede Jelinek, winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature * Praise for “Eye of the Monkey” *
“Krisztina Tóth’s composition sets her apart from all the others. She has the strength of a buffalo and the weightlessness of a butterfly.” -- Péter Nádas * Praise for Krisztina Tóth *
ISBN: 9781803096162
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 454g
144 pages