This classic dystopian satire has been compared to the likes of Brave
New World, Gulliver's Travels and The Wizard of Oz. Voyage to Kazohinia
is a tour de force of twentieth-century literature--and it is here
published in English for the first time outside of Hungary. Sándor
Szathmári's novel chronicles the travels of a modern Gulliver on the eve
of World War II. A shipwrecked English ship's surgeon finds himself on
an unknown island whose inhabitants, the Hins, live a technologically
advanced existence without emotions, desires, arts, money, or politics.
Soon unhappy amid this bleak perfection, Gulliver asks to be admitted to
the closed settlement of the Behins, beings with souls and atavistic
human traits. He has seen nothing yet. A massively entertaining mix of
satire and science fiction, Voyage to Kazohinia has seen half a dozen
editions in Hungary in decades since its original publication and
remains the country's most popular cult classic.