Interview with Peter Pistanek
A couple of months ago, Robert Buckeye reviewed Peter Pistanek’s Rivers of Babylon, a novel about Racz, a stoker in the Hotel Ambassador whose power quickly expands when he realizes that “he who puts the heat on can control things.” Rivers of Babylon was on the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize longlist ...
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Latest Review: Rivers of Babylon
Robert Buckeye provides us with our latest review, a look at Peter Pistanek’s Rivers of
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The Rivers of Babylon
Ortega y Gasset wrote of those who had stepped onto the stage of history and did not belong there. Vertical invaders he called them. Those who had come up from below. Cowboy capitalists and tinhorn dictators who elbowed the nobility, church and founding fathers aside. In Peter Pistanek’s version, the peasant from the ...
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