Tamas Dobozy: 3 books

Built around the events of the Soviet Budapest Offensive at the end of World War II and its long shadow, the stories in Siege 13 are full of wit, irony, and dark humor. In a series of linked stories that alternate between the siege itself and a contemporary community of Hungarian émigrés who find refuge...

A collection of stunning short fiction from the O. Henry Prize–winning author of Siege 13. “Dobozy’s prose is an artistic and intellectual boon” (Publishers Weekly).   Upon the publication of Siege 13, Jeff VanderMeer, in the Washington Post, stated, “the sheer variety of Dobozy’s approaches...

Robert Fulford called it “a remarkable glimpse of the underbelly of Toronto,” but the reviews that greeted the publication of Cabbagetown Diary in 1970 were decidedly mixed. The novel’s rowdy concoction of grit and violence and rooming-house sleaze had a strongly polarizing effect on its readers....