Egyformák vagytok

Two women carry the dialogue: a lawyer for a publisher, just back from England and never short of a sharp word, and a historian with frayed nerves who advises on the shoot of a TV series re-enacting the distant past. The view sweeps from a luxury party in a downtown home restaurant, where Budapest's cultural elite show themselves, across the ruin-bar quarter to the film set. Around them move relatives who cause trauma as if it were their duty, old and new lovers, ever-present female rivals, mentors who wreck promising careers and an heiress who sees ghosts. In this brightly coloured historical novel about the present, the threads of the Bárdy family's story come together or finally fray, yet it stands on its own, showing why the ghosts of the past become visible only once we see that the people in our lives, ourselves among them, have become ghosts.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

240 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Satire (assigned by AI)

Set in

Hungary

Series

Nyughatatlanok, book 3

First published

2017 by Magvető

Author's age

41 when first published

ISBN

9789631436006 (original)