Vadnai Bébi

In Budapest in the 1970s, where a single day is eternity, Dobrovics, a writer at the start of his career, begins to investigate a friend's father after it is suggested that the two young men may be brothers. Secret after secret comes to light. In Budapest in the 1940s, where life lasts only a day and the war comes ever closer, gilded young men swarm around the stunningly beautiful Bébi Vadnai. Can Dobrovics see to the bottom of the secrets, and what will he find there? The novel, largely based on real events, evokes the figures and places of old Budapest and shows how people behave in war, while charting the irrationality of love, desire turning into hatred and the desperate search for a mother and a father.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

293 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, Love, War (assigned by AI)

Set in

Hungary, 1940s, 1970s

First published

2013 by Magvető

Author's age

67 when first published

ISBN

9789631431223 (original)