Early in this novel, the dreams of a potbellied woman are interspersed with three rats in her room eating an entire loaf of bread. At this novel’s opening, the middle-aged Mrs. Plauf is ogled by a brandy-drinking vagrant on a train before arriving in a town where all streetlights have stopped working. A leaning water tower and a fallen poplar tree serve (-5[1])as omens in this novel, which uses its author’s characteristic long, syntactically-complex sentences for descriptions of The Prince. The postman Valuska arranges bar patrons into a model of the solar system and assists (15[1])the (-5[1])(*) shut-in (10[1]-5[1])music theorist Mr. Eszter (10[2])in this novel’s section “The Werckmeister Harmonies,” which was adapted (10[1])by (10[1])Béla Tarr. For 10 points, (10[1])name this bleak novel (-5[1])in which a carnival bearing a whale corpse (10[1])arrives in a small Hungarian town, written by (0[1])László Krasznahorkai. (10[1]) (10[1]0[1]) ■END■