Vtedy v Lošonci. Via Lošonc

An eight-year-old boy tells of the ordinary, everyday but enormously important things that fill life at eight or nine in the southern Slovak town of Lučenec, Lošonc in Hungarian. He and his best friend Kápia are armed with a catapult and a bow; Kápia knows six rude words and kills an animal a day, the narrator knows every name in the calendar by heart and brushes his teeth every night. They seal their friendship by biting each other's arms under an old walnut tree. The account mixes roughness and tenderness, fantasy and raw reality, with the history that runs through the town.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

193 pages in the original

Genres

Coming of age (assigned by AI)

Set in

Slovakia

First published

2014 by KK Bagala

Author's age

26 when first published

ISBN

9788081080999 (original)