The End

András Szabad grows up in a small town in Communist Hungary until his mother's death sends him and his father to Budapest. There the young man finds his way through a grey, watchful society by looking at it through a camera, and over the years he becomes a photographer known far beyond the country. The book is the story of a photographer, of a man, of several loves that run into one another, and of a country under dictatorship. Told in short chapters, each built around a striking image, it follows a man who lives every feeling at full heat.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

600 pages in the original

Genres

Love, Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

Hungary, Kádár era

First published

2015 by Magvető

Author's age

47 when first published

ISBN

9789631433401 (original)

9781953861429 (Archipelago Books, United States)