Megint hazavárunk

In October 2006 a family of four packs into a rickety Suzuki and drives across Europe: they are leaving Hungary to find a home in the 'happy north'. The narrator is, slyly, called Árpád Kun, yet this is fiction rather than a life story. Along the way the book brings back a childhood in Sopron, Hungary in the 2000s and the daily life of emigrants, and it is more than a travelogue across the continent. Its real subject is growing up: how to become independent of the patterns of one's parents and grandparents while still loving them, and how to find oneself in everyday tasks. It is carried by a faith that free will can show itself in doing good and in making things better.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

420 pages in the original

Genres

Autofiction, Migration, Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Hungary, Norway, France, Romania, 1970s–2000s

First published

2016 by Magvető

Author's age

51 when first published

ISBN

9789631434149 (original)