BARCODE – A collection of short stories by Krisztina Tóth

(translated from the Hungarian Vonalkód  by Peter Sherwood)

Jantar Publishing, London, ISBN 978-1-914990-16-8, March 2023.

Longlisted for the 2024 Republic of Consciousness Prize

Shortlisted for the 2023 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation. Finalist for the 2024 EBRD Literature Prize

“An exceptional writer”, Declan O’Driscoll, The Irish Times

“Krisztina Tóth is a poet by trade, a fact that comes across starkly in Barcode, a sharp collection of short stories now translated into English.” Michael Delgado, The iPaper, 23 May 2023

“Peter Sherwood’s translation is crisp and clean as always, and we should be grateful for his continuing work to bring Hungarian fiction to the English-reading world.” Daniel W. Pratt, Los Angeles Review of Books, 18 September 2023

“Sherwood displays an ear for both the felicities of the language, as in “Jagged shadows shimmered in the sweltering heat,” and the perfect metaphor, as when he describes a distant forest as “here-be-dragons country.” Cory Oldweiler, Words Without Borders, 4 October 2023.

Link to buy here

Read the short story “Take Five (Fault Line)” here

Read the short story “’The Witch Has Three, Three Kids Has She'(The Line’s Busy)” here