by Benedek Totth (Author), Ildikó Noémi Nagy (Translator)

Trainspotting meets Friday Night Lights meets Cormac McCarthy--in a swimming pool.

Author Biography

Born in Hungary in 1977, Benedek Totth studied American literature and now works as an editor and translator in Budapest. His translations into Hungarian include works by Stephen King, Cormac McCarthy, Hunter S. Thompson and William S. Burroughs. Dead Heat, his first novel, caused a sensation in Hungary, where it won the Margó Prize for best first novel of the year. It has been published in translation in France and Slovakia.