Vera

Szeged, 1980. Vera is in the fourth grade, a good pupil and a good athlete; her father works for the army and her mother waits for her every day after school. Within a few weeks her secure life changes, one event following another like falling dominoes, though no one can tell what set them off. Why does she turn against her best friend for good? Why is spending more and more time with Józef, the new Polish boy, so wonderful and so frightening? And why do adults keep secrets while expecting Vera always to tell the truth? She learns that uncovering a family's secrets takes courage as well as knowledge.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

328 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Coming of age (assigned by AI)

Set in

Hungary, 1980

First published

2019 by Magvető

Author's age

43 when first published

ISBN

9789631438291 (original)

9789631444353 (Magvető, Hungary)