Radu Afrim

COMMUNE

Eco-romance

Huba, the musician lives alone in a manor in the middle of the forest. His beloved aunt died long ago, Ambrus the servant has gone on vacation, and even the hens are silent because they froze last winter. Huba rubs his rheumatic fingers with assorted creams and often lies staring at the ceiling during his sleepless nights: his heart won’t let him sell the manor he can no longer maintain. But after a series of bizarre events, the house fills up with all sorts of tenants and their life stories that wind like the painted lines on plates from Korond.

Translated by Sándor László and Dálnoky Réka