Gyerekgyár

Kund Bulvár met his second wife on his first honeymoon and his third, Paula, on his second. With Paula he skips the honeymoon, because with her he truly wants a child. A trickster who makes a living from invented news stories, he travels from a village at the end of the world to Budapest for sperm tests, and when nature fails the couple, they have to ask the "child factory" for help: examinations, attempts, a game of patience. Around this story of infertility, artificial insemination and IVF told from a man's point of view, absurd episodes multiply: a marathon pub crawl, a village where dreaming is banned, language thieves who take nursery children hostage, and a flu epidemic sweeping the city.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

211 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Satire (assigned by AI)

Set in

Hungary

First published

2006 by Ulpius-ház

Author's age

39 when first published

ISBN

9789639602724 (original)