Day In Day Out: A Novel

✍ Scribed by Terezia Mora

• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 431
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In a scruffy park of a West European metropolis, a man in an ill-fitting trench coat is found hanging by the feet, half-dead. This is Abel Nema, the enigmatic yet fascinating protagonist of Ter?zia Mora’s internationally acclaimed novel, a linguistic phenomenon who can speak ten languages flawlessly but whose grip on reality is slowly slipping away. Since his self-imposed exile from his Balkan homeland ten years earlier, he has been making a life among fellow refugees: a group of bohemian jazz musicians, an eccentric student of ancient history, and a gang of young Gypsies. His acquaintances among the locals include a neighbor who claims to have visited heaven (and introduces Abel to hallucinogens), the sordid characters who frequent the neighborhood sex bar, and a wonderfully zany family he joins when, desperate to extend his residency permit, he enters into a fictive marriage. Yet through it all he remains strangely hollow: for all his languages he has little humanity to put into words. Day In Day Out, Ter?zia Mora’s fierce and beautiful debut novel, is at once an evocation of the newly multicultural Europe and an exploration of a deeply disturbed individual. It is a prose labyrinth of rare poetic force that marks its author as a major new voice in contemporary fiction.

✦ Table of Contents

Title Page......Page 2
Contents......Page 4
Part 0......Page 10
Birds......Page 12
Choruses......Page 14
The Unknown Quantity......Page 21
Trials by Ordeal......Page 27
Police Report......Page 34
Mercedes......Page 42
Radio......Page 49
Part One......Page 56
Broken Windows......Page 58
Dog Days......Page 67
A Woman by the Name of Bora......Page 71
Miracle......Page 77
Part Two......Page 82
Food I. Konstantin......Page 84
Food II. Tibor......Page 90
Welcome......Page 98
Being and Having......Page 103
Salon......Page 110
Transit......Page 116
Eka......Page 120
Questions......Page 126
Part Three......Page 134
In the Woods......Page 136
The Godmother......Page 143
After the Frost......Page 151
In the Enclave......Page 156
Where from, Where to......Page 161
Crisis......Page 166
The Tick......Page 172
Part Four......Page 178
Carlo......Page 180
Games......Page 186
A Long Day’s Night. Abel......Page 192
A Long Day’s Night. Danko......Page 197
Night......Page 205
Day......Page 213
Men the Right Age......Page 220
Part Five......Page 224
American as Apple Pie......Page 226
Being a Passenger......Page 232
Falcons......Page 239
Elsa......Page 243
In Haste......Page 247
Part Six......Page 254
Street Scene. Mercedes......Page 256
Abel......Page 261
Omar......Page 266
Betwixt and Between......Page 272
Spring......Page 278
Ce Jour......Page 284
What was the Question?......Page 289
Life in the Hills and On the High Seas......Page 296
Kite Flying......Page 306
Jigsaw......Page 311
The Visit......Page 319
Small Things......Page 327
In Flagrante......Page 333
Part Seven......Page 338
Who do you think you…......Page 340
What it is......Page 345
Other Questions......Page 351
The Sky Over our Cul-de-Sac......Page 355
Center......Page 362
Part 0......Page 406
Awakening......Page 408
Last Turn......Page 415
Exit......Page 422
About the Author and the Translator......Page 426
Praise......Page 427
Also by Terézia Mora......Page 428
Credits......Page 429
Copyright Notice......Page 430
About the Publisher......Page 431