Andrea Tompa

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Andrea Tompa (b. 1971) is a novelist and theater critic based in Budapest. She edits the leading theater journal Színház (Theater) and is a member of the Széchenyi Literary and Arts Academy. Her fourth novel, Haza (Home), was published in June 2020. “Tongue in Mouth” is an excerpt from it.

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    Home by Andrea Tompa

    Andrea Tompa
    London. Istros Books. 2024. 360 pages.Andrea Tompa is a Transylvanian Hungarian writer living in Budapest whose novels often deal with Transylvanian themes and with the history of the…
  • A pencil drawing of the interior of a human mouth

    Tongue in Mouth

    Summer 2021
    Andrea Tompa
    “Anatomy of the mouth” by liverpoolhls is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 In the dentist’s chair with mouth wide open, a patient contemplates her tongue’s relationships to B6 or B7, how shade…