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Vonalkód
Krisztina Tóth (born 1967)
Translated by Peter Sherwood
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Jantar Publishing · United Kingdom · 2023 · Paperback · 226 pages
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Stories that return to a childhood shaped by the 1970s, when a barcode marked everything that came from the West, and to the fears and reflexes the era left behind: anxiety, exclusion, and still, a childhood that was not all bad.
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About the book
- Form
- Short stories
- Length
- 184 pages in the original
- Genres
- Coming of age (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Hungary
- First published
- 2006 by Magvető
- Author's age
- 39 when first published
- ISBN
9789631425123 (original)
9781914990168 (Jantar Publishing, United Kingdom)