Magyar Copperfield

An autobiographical novel about its author's childhood and youth. The boy who comes to awareness after the Second World War is raised by his grandparents and by the market on Teleki Square in Budapest. At ten he lives through the twists of the 1956 revolution, and his teenage rebellion and first steps as a young man coincide with the consolidation of the Kádár regime. Rich in witty anecdotes, the book portrays the people and encounters that shaped his first twenty-five years and offers a close-up chronicle of Hungarian history in the 1950s and 1960s.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

640 pages in the original

Genres

Autofiction, Coming of age, Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Hungary, 1950s–1960s

First published

2020 by Magvető

Author's age

74 when first published

ISBN

9789631434378 (original)