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The novella plays out on two time levels. In the first, the late 1960s, the lead is an art-school student sentenced to twenty-five years for smuggling people across the border. In the second, the 1990s, he is joined by a whole family, above all its women, affected indirectly but no less deeply by the same regime. The narrators take turns as if on a conveyor belt, and their accounts seem meant to explain why some characters killed or were killed, why there were lesbian loves and incest, and why the natural need for love and beauty was deformed into a need to hate and kill, to destroy relationships and run from them in panic. The book is subtitled 'stories of two women'.

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About the book

Form

Novella

Length

78 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Politics, Crime (assigned by AI)

First published

2005 by Koloman Kertész Bagala

Author's age

71 when first published

ISBN

8089129463 (original)