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4,667 books · 44 prizes · 39 countries
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Libri 2022 · Winner
Herscht 07769
László Krasznahorkai · 67 when first published
Novel · 416 pages · Politics, Satire
AI-generated summary:In a small town in Thuringia, a gentle giant who cleans graffiti writes to Angela Merkel about the end of the world, while neo-Nazis gather around the town's cult of Bach.
Libri 2022 · Shortlist
Mondatok a csodálkozásról
Edina Szvoren · 47 when first published
Short stories · 264 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:Very short notes and seven longer stories about a horse's panic, the blind riding a chairlift, a video player brought from beyond the Iron Curtain, and a mother irritated by her son's hair.
Libri 2021 · Shortlist
Haza
Andrea Tompa · 49 when first published
Novel · 480 pages · Migration
AI-generated summary:Invited to a class reunion, a middle-aged writer who emigrated to New York thirty years ago travels back to the city of her youth, where no one is waiting for her anymore.
Libri 2021 · Shortlist
Mély levegő
Rita Halász · 40 when first published
Novel · 224 pages · Family, Love
AI-generated summary:After a violent quarrel, a woman leaves her husband with their two small children and must decide whether to save her marriage or start again and learn to breathe freely.
Libri 2020 · Shortlist
Vera
Krisztián Grecsó · 43 when first published
Novel · 384 pages · Family, Coming of age
AI-generated summary:In Szeged in 1980, a ten-year-old girl's safe life changes within weeks as she falls out with her best friend, is drawn to a new Polish boy and begins to sense her family's secrets.
Libri 2018 · Winner
Omerta
Andrea Tompa · 46 when first published
Novel · 724 pages · Historical, Politics, Love
AI-generated summary:In 1950s Cluj, under a tightening Communist dictatorship, a peasant woman, a young city girl, a nun and a rose breeder tell how their lives cross, and how they fall into a love triangle.
Also: Aegon 2018 shortlist
Libri 2018 · Shortlist
Egy dadogás története
Novel · 412 pages · Family, Autofiction, Historical
AI-generated summary:A writer growing up near Arad in Romania tells his own life and his parents', and those of earlier generations, between the Hungarian border and the Székely Land, to invent himself a homeland.
Also: Aegon 2018 shortlist
Libri 2018 · Shortlist
Világló részletek
Péter Nádas · 75 when first published
Nonfiction · 576 pages · Family, Historical
AI-generated summary:A writer's memoir of his childhood and family in twentieth-century Budapest, built from vivid fragments of memory that he takes apart to recover the original experience.
Also: Aegon 2018 winner
Libri 2017 · Winner
A lélek legszebb éjszakája
Sándor Jászberényi · 36 when first published
Short stories · 200 pages · War
AI-generated summary:Stories narrated by a disillusioned Hungarian war correspondent who escapes a dishonest world into war zones, alcohol, opium and brief love affairs across the Middle East and Africa.
Also: Aegon 2017 shortlist
Libri 2017 · Shortlist
Báró Wenckheim hazatér
László Krasznahorkai · 62 when first published
Novel · 576 pages · Satire
AI-generated summary:A gravely ill baron with a gambling habit comes home from Buenos Aires to the run-down Hungarian provincial town where he was born, and where the locals await him like a messiah.
Also: National Book Award 2019 winner · Aegon 2017 winner
Libri 2017 · Shortlist
Egy piaci nap
Pál Závada · 62 when first published
Novel · 208 pages · Historical, Crime
AI-generated summary:In May 1946, at the weekly market of a village on the Great Plain, women chase down and kill a Jewish egg trader, and a teacher's wife witnesses violence spreading through the community.
Libri 2016 · Shortlist
A vége
Attila Bartis · 47 when first published
Novel · 600 pages · Love, Politics
AI-generated summary:In a small town in Communist Hungary, a boy loses his mother and moves to Budapest with his father, where he grows up to become a photographer whose life is driven by images and by love.
Also: Aegon 2016 shortlist