巴爾提斯•阿蒂拉是匈牙利最為活躍的年輕作傢之一。《寜靜海》是其小說處女作，甫一齣版即在歐洲獲得極大反響。

譯者簡介：

餘澤民，翻譯傢，作傢。1989年畢業於北京醫科大學臨床醫學係，後在中國音樂學院音樂學係攻讀藝術心理學碩士。1991年赴匈牙利，現定居布達佩斯 。中國作傢協會會員，北京作傢協會會員。翻譯凱爾泰斯•伊姆萊的《英國旗》《命運無常》《另一個人》《船夫日記》，艾斯特哈茲•彼得的《赫拉巴爾之書》《一個女人》，德拉古曼•久爾吉的《摘鬱金香的男孩》等。著有長篇小說《狹窄的天光》、中篇小說集《匈牙利舞麯》、文化散文《咖啡館裏看歐洲》、《歐洲醉行》、《歐洲的另一種色彩》等。

" Tranquility is a moving, emotionally complex, subtle, shocking novel …" Los Angeles Times Tranquility , the acclaimed third novel by Hungarian Attila Bartis, is simultaneously a private psychodrama and a portrait of the end of the Communist era. Reading it, we arrive at ourselves, at our own obsessions, in our own silence,” writes Ilma Rakusa. A thirty-six-year-old writer struggles to escape his hellish, Oedipal inter dependency with his actress mother as Hungary’s Communist infrastructure collapses around him. One of the most psychologically dark and ironic novels to have emerged from contemporary Hungarian literature, it is also, as far as human psychology and political farce are concerned, one of the most illuminating. Attila Bartis has been hailed by Hungarian readers as a maverick, unorthodox, and highly inventive postmodern writer. Tranquility is his first novel to appear in English. Imre Goldstein has translated dozens of books and plays from the Hungarian. He is currently translating a three-volume novel by Péter Nádas.