Dracula Park

Winner of the Swiss Book Prize, Nominated for the German Book Prize.

Dracula Park by Dana Grigorcea provides a perfect dose of supernatural and intrigue for fans of Horror and Gothic Fiction.

After the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989, a young artist returns from Paris to the rural town of B., south of Transylvania, Romania. Despite its kitschy charm and quiet idyll, an undeniable shadow cloaks the town: the people around her are changing and a sinister aura looms behind B.’s sleepy demeanor.

When a mutilated corpse is discovered in the family crypt of Prince Vlad the Impaler, infamously known as Dracula, this previously inexplicable tension and uncanny reaches its peak. With plans from the corrupt mayor to turn the crypt into a vampire-themed amusement park, B. is set for ruin, the haven it once was becoming lost in the desperate clutching of the past. Dana Grigorcea weaves themes of the supernatural, magical realism and Romanian folklore into this prize-winning, captivating tale of revenge, extremism and politics. Described by Frankfurter Rundschau as a ‘dreamy and rock-hard horror story’, Dracula Park's experimentalism with the realm of time, reality and fantasy encapsulates the social changes in a post-communist Romania.

Dana Grigorcea, born in 1979 in Bucharest, studied German and Dutch literature in Bucharest and theatre and film directing as well as quality journalism in Krems, Austria. She worked as journalist and has been living in Zurich as freelancing writer since 2013. Her novels and stories won multiple awards, among them the 3sat Prize of the Ingeborg Bachmann awards. Imogen Taylor is a British literary translator. She translates works from German to English and has previously won the Goethe-Institut Prize for her work. Her notable translations include Sasha Marianna Salzmann's novel, Beside Myself, Melanie Raabe's The Trap, as well as Florian Huber's Promise Me You’ll Shoot Yourself: The Downfall of Ordinary Germans, 1945; and Sascha Arango's novel, The Truth and Other Lies. Her work has been shortlisted for the Schlegel-Tieck Prize and Helen and Kurt Wolff's Translator Prize.

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