Másik halál

A forty-year-old man in Pest, until recently a university professor, breaks down psychologically and financially from one day to the next. A waiter living in Germany who suffers from insomnia commits suicide. A Hungarian aristocrat works now as a tinsmith, now as a taxi driver, and now as the guardian angel of one of the major Hungarian writers of the twentieth century. Events in a Geneva restaurant are reconstructed, closely tied to the massacres in Bosnia. Between them come snapshots of everyday life in Hungary after the change of regime. Several kinds of narration run at once, and the puzzles and mysteries build like those of a good crime novel, in an attempt to show the hidden links between personal fate and history.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

298 pages in the original

Genres

Crime, Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

Hungary, Germany, Switzerland

First published

2012 by Kalligram

Author's age

53 when first published

ISBN

9788081015977 (original)