Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Making Skeletons Dance

Making Skeletons Dance

Minahane, John
Macsovszky, Peter

Hardcover

Series: The Slovak List

General Fiction

Publisher Price: $29.00

ISBN10: 1803094141
ISBN13: 9781803094144
Publisher: Seagull Books
Published: May 9 2025
Pages: 385
Weight: 1.25
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
An introduction to the work of acerbic Slovak writer Peter Macsovszky.

Simon Blef, who comes from a small, stifling country without a sea in some corner of Europe, has gone to live in the Netherlands. There he has found a wife and hopes he may yet find work. He is making preparations: he carries around a notebook and jots down his thoughts. One day he would like to write a novel, but in the meantime, he records, embellishes, invents, and combines what he sees with what he dreams: the happy, hard-working Dutch, with their seventy-year-old hippies--the superannuated generation of rockers-- and their new sexless generation, as well as the tourists and immigrants from beyond the seven seas.

Set in a single day, Making Skeletons Dance is full of impressionistic musings, in equal measure mordant and humorous. Simon has left his small unhappy country to get away from the past--but how is it that the past is so devilishly resourceful, liable to turn up in any Amsterdam pub? As the afternoon wears on, the drama of his life unfolds in fascinating detail, be it comedy or tragedy, or both.

Also in

General Fiction

View All