Farkashab [Wolfrahm]. Târgu Mureș, Lector Publishers, 2022.

Category: novel
Pages: 144
Cover: hardback
ISBN: 978-606-8957-37-1

Evelin Márton (1980, Cluj, Romania) is a writer and radio journalist who works for the Helikon literary review and the Bucharest Radio. She received the Award for Contemporary Transylvanian Culture in 2017 and the Zsigmond Kemény Literary Award in 2019. She authored Bonjour Leibowitz (short stories, 2008); Macskaméz [Cat Honey] (short stories, 2011); Papírszív [Paper Heart] (short stories, 2012); Szalamandrák éjszakái [Night of the Salamanders] (novel, 2015); Solea minor (novel, 2021).

Farkashab is classified as an “archival diary” by the author. Evelin Márton demonstrates a masterful ability to construct a space of memory. Her prose, whether vivid or fragmentary, jumps through time and space with the flexibility and strength of a spiderweb. The depiction of that Indian summer of growing up in Transylvania during the late eighties and nineties resonates deeply, as good spaces of memory should. We feel at home in the text, invited into someone else’s world that somehow feels like our own.