Tibor Noé Kiss: Melting
- The consequences of a funeral -
In the mosaic-like story of The Melting, the characters are distant from each other in space and time, separated by worlds, yet they exist in close proximity to each other. In their dreams, their desires, their fears.
They are inescapably linked, whether they want to be or not. Because they are kin. Because they love each other. Because they share a secret. The protagonist and narrator of this novel, set in the spring of 2019, is a thirty-something woman, formerly a social worker, who has started a new life in a village in Baranya County with her husband, a cultural anthropologist. The text shows the two of them from different perspectives: her everyday life is shaken up by a death, the man returns to Siberia to research among the Khanty, where he is met by an unexpected and dramatic situation.
The woman begins to investigate: she is forced to confront her old life, which she thought was closed. The stories unfold in circular zooms and zoom-outs, revealing connections, parallel fieldwork about lives lost, lives revisited and griefs found. In Tibor Kiss Noé's novel, written with poetic condensations, we are on the ground all the time, on the road: between villages, farms and small towns, isolated from the main lines, hoping for revival, forgotten, in the vastness of forests and the seemingly endless taiga, in the sensual presence of nature.
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The Melting is loosely connected to the author's two previous novels, the You Should Sleep and The Unforeseeable Landscape, where the characters, events and motifs return in places and are given new light and meaning. They merge into a larger story.
János Szegő talks to the author.
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