Virágzabálók

The novel is set in nineteenth-century Szeged, where Hungarians, Germans, Serbs, Jews and Roma live together beside the Tisza, a river that both sustains the city and destroys it with its floods. At its centre is Klára Pelsőczy, who has a red mark in the middle of her palm, perhaps an angel's footprint from the day she was born. Three men, Imre, Péter and Ádám, try to win her for good, one with burning passion, one with self-tormenting devotion, one with bohemian gallantry. Around them appear an unusual doctor, a grass musician who has played on a blade of grass for centuries, and his companions. Fire, flood and the revolution of 1848 come to the city, followed by bloody battles and the deaf silence of foreign oppression.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

672 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, Love (assigned by AI)

Set in

Hungary, 19th century

First published

2009 by Magvető

Author's age

47 when first published

ISBN

9789631426960 (original)