Mellettem elférsz

The characters of this family novel believe in heredity: they know that with their genes they have also been given a fate. The protagonist, a man in his mid-thirties, anxiously watches himself, his gestures and every change in his body. His girlfriend leaves him, and the accidental discovery of a family secret entangles him in a web of mysteries. As he solves them one by one and slowly learns what his family has done, he recognises himself: in hasty marriage proposals, in secret loves, in long years of lonely waiting, he becomes more and more the protagonist. He has inherited not only his movements, his hair colour and his build, but, if he pays attention, his future too. Lives that had drifted apart meet in present-day Budapest.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

287 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Love (assigned by AI)

Set in

Hungary

First published

2011 by Magvető

Author's age

35 when first published

ISBN

9789631428520 (original)