The Investigator

The news of his mother's death finds the writer in Budapest. It opens what he calls an emotional black box, and he begins to unravel layered stories with the patience of an investigator. He follows his mother's life from childhood to death, but her life is only the frame for other people's fates, which cross at certain moments. The story begins during the First World War, with the great fire of Thessaloniki in 1917, and the migrants of the twentieth century pass through it. The novel about a mother becomes a writer's confession about his own work and a history of a country and of people who are no more.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

266 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Autofiction, Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Hungary, Greece, 20th century

First published

2015 by Laguna

Author's age

62 when first published

ISBN

9788652118755 (original)

9781912545544 (Istros Books, United Kingdom)

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