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The book has three parts. The first, Splinters of Memory, gathers sixty-one short, tightly written pieces, boundless in time and place and full of sudden turns, where small everyday things such as a spider living in the bathroom matter as much as where we belong in the world and what happened to us in the twentieth century. The second, Lives, holds seven stories, variations on vulnerability: an old man searching for his dog, the stumbles of a teenage love later revealed as a mistake, and the eternal wanderer who stays forever a stranger. The third, The Album of Smiles, is a screenplay: the story of a tennis court from 1940 to October 1956, history as a teenager lives through the disintegration of the genteel middle class.

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About the book

Form

Short stories

Length

299 pages in the original

Genres

Historical (assigned by AI)

First published

2012 by Magyar Napló

Author's age

77 when first published

ISBN

9789639961579 (original)