A szerző a mai Amerika vagyis az Egyesült Államok eli-és tömegkulturális térképét igyekszik megrajzolni újkori magyar Kolumbuszként. Eközben szakértelemmel kalauzol minket a legújabb jelenségek özönében,melyek az egész világra jelentős hatással vannak, mint például a politikai koerrektség elve és gyakorlata, vagy a számunkra sokszor túlzó testkultusz
Zsófia Bán was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1957 and grew up in Brazil and Hungary. A writer, essayist, and critic of art and literature, she made her fiction debut in 2007 with Esti iskola [Night School: A Reader for Adults], followed by Amikor még csak az állatok éltek [When There Were Only Animals, 2012].
Zsófia Bán’s writing often addresses topics related to visuality, visual arts, photography, personal and cultural memory, historical trauma, as well as gender. She has written a number of essays related to the topic of literature and visuality, including those on W.G. Sebald, Susan Sontag, Imre Kertész and Péter Nádas. Her short stories and essays have been widely anthologized, and translated to a number of languages, including German, English, Spanish, Czech, Slovakian and Slovenian.
She lives and works in Budapest, where she is Associate Professor at Eötvös Loránd University, Department of American Studies.