Tavaszi Tárlat

The novel grew out of a strange newspaper article the author read as an eleven-year-old in the spring of 1957, which came back to him more than forty years later. It is a novel of 1956 and above all of 1957. Its premise is that it does no harm to check into hospital a few days before a revolution breaks out, stay there until it is crushed, and convalesce peacefully at home during the reprisals: fate spares you from making a wrong decision, or any decision at all, and those who decide over others' lives cannot decide wrongly about you. Drawn from real events, the story is a grotesquely precise record of a revolution and of the ordinary days after it, of shifts of allegiance and of things falling back into place.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

285 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, Politics, Satire (assigned by AI)

Set in

Hungary, 1956–1957

First published

2010 by Magvető

Author's age

64 when first published

ISBN

9789631428414 (original)