Árpád Kun

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• Megint hazavárunk

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  Aegon 2017 · Shortlist

  Megint hazavárunk

  AITitle translated by AI:“We're Expecting You Home Again”

  Árpád Kun · 51 when first published

  Novel · 420 pages · Autofiction, Migration, Family

  AIAI-generated summary:In October 2006 a family of four sets out in a battered Suzuki to cross Europe, leaving Hungary to make a home in the north, while the narrator, who shares the author's name, looks back on a childhood in Sopron.

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  Aegon 2014 · ★ Winner

  Boldog Észak

  AITitle translated by AI:“Happy North”

  Árpád Kun · 48 when first published

  Novel · 434 pages · Migration, Family, Love

  AIAI-generated summary:Aimé Billion, of Yoruba, Vietnamese and French descent, too white for Africans and too African for white people, works as an orderly in Benin until, at thirty-eight, he moves to Norway in search of happiness.