Az ország legjobb hóhéra

Stories in which horror, pity and surprise arrive together. The country's best hangman moves in next door and fills the neighbours with a sense of elevation; a mother may see the child who stays with its blind father only when she breastfeeds; someone tries to live with a mannequin. Its people cannot find the right words with their parents or children and long to be away from their partners or for partners they cannot have, yet they somehow go on functioning, strangers in their own stories. A dark, sometimes absurd humour runs through these claustrophobic domestic worlds.

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About the book

Form

Short stories

Length

186 pages in the original

Genres

Family (assigned by AI)

First published

2015 by Magvető

Author's age

41 when first published

ISBN

9789631432534 (original)