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Tranquility (novel)
Tranquility AuthorAttila BartisAudio read byErn? Fekete [hu]Original titleA nyugalomTranslatorImre GoldsteinCountryHungaryLanguageHungarianGenreTragedySet inBudapest during the decline of Communist HungaryPublisherMagvet?2001September 2008 (Archipelago Books)Media typePrint (hardcover)Pages326AwardsBest Translated Book Award (2009)ISBN978-963-14-2251-1LC ClassPH3213.B2976 N94 2001
Tranquility (Hungarian: A nyugalom) is a 2001 novel by Attila Bartis, published by Magvet?. His second novel, Tranquility is considered Bartis's most famous work. Set in communist-era Budapest, Tranquility is a psychological novel about a writer and his dysfunctional relationship with his mother and two other women, and is noted for its bleak storyline and its vulgar depictions of violence and sexual activity. Tranquility was adapted into film, titled Nyugalom (2008), directed by Róbert Alföldi. Originally published in Hungarian by Magvet?, it was later translated into English by Imre Goldstein and published in 2008 by Archipelago Books. It was the first time Bartis's work had been translated into English. Goldstein's translation won the Best Translated Book Award (2009).
As of 2019, Tranquility has been translated into Spanish, Bulgarian, Polish, German, Romanian, Turkish, English, Estonian, Swedish, Czech, Dutch, Chinese, Russian, Italian, Portuguese and Arabic.
Plot
In final years of the communist Hungarian People's Republic, writer Andor Weér–the novel's narrator–lives in dysfunction with his mother, Rebeka Weér. Rebeka is a former celebrated actress who has not left their Budapest apartment in fifteen years. Andor's father was a theatre critic and a former member of the
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