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A veteran of the Yugoslav Wars is hit hard by the fallout. In elegant, liquid prose Danyi conveys a bitter taste of one man’s trauma. Memories collide, expand and direct the main character, while his body is also a battleground – terror lodged deep in his guts: in control of his bodily functions. The man remains nameless – identified by his preoccupation with his ex-girlfriend and his occupations: first petrol smuggler, then ex-soldier turned carcass remover, and finally dogsbody for a dodgy businessman. All the while he is crossing borders between Serbia, Croatia and Hungary, in relentless movement to alleviate his afflictions.
A visceral, yet poetic, exploration of the fragility of a man whose psyche is pushed to the limits under the stress of that most human of activities, organized military conflict, The Carcass Remover attempts to find a language to piece together a shattered world.
“The nurse presumably didn’t understand a word, and she left a long time ago anyway, he was alone in the room, lying on the bed, and everything around him was white, the bed, the chair, the floor and the walls, and the window was white, and the grille on the window too.”
Winner of the Miklós Mészöly Prize, the Tibor Déry Prize and the Milán Füst Prize
Publication date: 15 October, 2026
Cover design by Niall McCormack.
Cover image © Gerhard Richter 2026 (02042026). Used with permission of Kunstmuseum Basel, Geschenk des Hanspeter Schulthess-Oeri-Fonds. Photo by Jonas Hänggi.
