Market Day (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781803091600)

A novel exploring the descent of superficially decent people into vindictive killers.

What could bring people to form a mob and attack others? What circumstances could provoke a thirst for blood at the market square? Who will gang up to batter their neighbor, improbably returned from deportation? How can a person be swept up among lynchers?

P疝 Z疱ada's novel examines and analyses the anti-Semitic mass hysteria and political opportunism surrounding the pogroms in Hungary that followed World War II and the Holocaust. In May 1946, at the village market, M疵ia Csa witnessed a group of women set upon and beat to death a Jewish egg seller. The wife of a schoolteacher accused of anti-Semitic incitement, and daughter of a respected shopkeeper, M疵ia fears for her husband's life yet cannot ignore the victims. The murderous fury spreads through the neighborhood like wildfire, dragging out women, children, and the elderly alike. M疵ia's notes from the bloody day at the village market and from the subsequent trial in Budapest testify to a state of human relations that is intimately complex and irreparably scarred.


Author: P疝 Z疱ada
ISBN-10: 1803091606
ISBN-13: 9781803091600
Publisher: Seagull Books
Language: English
Published: 01/25/2024
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.10d