Életünk végéig

A historian of philosophy who has recovered from a nervous breakdown, and has just published a novel about his childhood, falls in love with a much younger anthropologist. Their love is ecstatic but shadowed by illness. Two months after the book comes out his elderly mother dies, and his family does not tell him. At the funeral he first suspects she did not die of cancer, as the death report says, and he tries to piece together what happened. The more desperately he searches, the darker the secrets of his family of eleven turn out to be, against the background of a divided present-day Hungary.

AI-generated summary

About the book

Form

Novel

Length

456 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Love (assigned by AI)

Set in

Hungary

First published

2019 by Kalligram

Author's age

60 when first published

ISBN

9789634681311 (original)