Le Monde Reviews Béla Osztojkán Books

English

Fayard published the novel There Is No One To Pay Jóska Átyin (1997) and the collection of short stories God Is Not Home (1985), both translated by Patricia Moncorgé.

 
The paper called Osztojkán, who died in June at age 60, "an immense figure in the public life of Hungarian Roma."
 
The review outlines the dark world of Osztojkán's short stories, in which a woman is forced into prostitution because of the imprisonment of her husband and a character is trapped alive in a coffin set afloat in a lake surrounded by barbed wire.
 
The review calls the novel There Is No One To Pay Jóska Átyin a "compelling" story about a girl adopted by a witch-like woman.