Csikágó

Csikágó is the nickname of the streets around Budapest's Keleti railway station, and this "tenement novel" makes the district both its setting and its main character. Its interlocking threads lead from the galleried courtyards of the seventh district to the gangs, gangsters and bootleggers of Chicago. The residents are recognisable local types, from the Millennium to the present, and each of their lives is an adventure story of its own: some cross three continents fleeing their fate, others never leave the worn street corner where they were born. Love affairs, dark tragedies, turning points in history and ironic episodes make up a hundred years over the quarter, watched by an owl.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Genres

Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Hungary, United States

First published

2006 by Palatinus

Author's age

50 when first published