In 1796, Ferenc Kazinczy is serving a seven-year prison sentence in Bohemia when his friend Angelo Soliman dies in Vienna. By imperial decree, his body is stuffed and put on display at the Natural History Museum. Thirty-six years later, Sophie Török, Kazinczy’s widow, goes to the museum to confront the stuffed body. Gergely Péterfy’s new novel, the result of ten years of work, is a masterfully composed, harrowing work that sustains the reader’s interest throughout.