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In 1975 the state security service in Budapest opened a recruitment and work file on an agent code-named Mrs Pápai. In March 2014 her son learns, at a café meeting, that the informer was his own mother, something he somehow knew before her name was said. Working from the documents in the file, he pieces together her double life and what it meant for his family, mixing the records with his own memories and with poems. The book offers no verdict.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

246 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Politics, Autofiction (assigned by AI)

Set in

Hungary

First published

2015 by Jelenkor

Author's age

63 when first published

ISBN

9789636765507 (original)