A Legkisebb Jégkorszak

A novel in verse set in 2019. Violent eruptions of Icelandic volcanoes bring a global cooling to Europe, and Hungary with it. Ágoston Mátrai, now consul in Reykjavík, has to return to Budapest when the ash cloud forces an evacuation, just as the volcanic winter reaches home. The book asks how Hungarian society and its centre-right government cope with the emergency, as the comfortable life of the upper middle class is shaken by extremist groups stirring under the snow, logistics fail, money stops buying survival and the ghosts of the hills come out.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

624 pages in the original

Genres

Speculative, Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

Iceland, Hungary, 2019

First published

2015 by Jelenkor

Author's age

45 when first published

ISBN

9789633107041 (original)