Kőbéka

Its hero Kálmánka is born in Záp, a place not found on any map, and returns there in the end. In between he roams half the world and the different Hungarys of several periods, receives a medal for heroism he never showed, and spends a quarter of the story in the psychiatric hospital on Lipótmező in Budapest. At one point he suns himself with lizards at the bottom of an empty swimming pool and talks to its stone frog, a silent listener.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

246 pages in the original

Genres

Satire (assigned by AI)

Set in

Hungary

First published

2017 by Magvető

Author's age

71 when first published

ISBN

9789631435191 (original)