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More than twenty years after an earlier book on his mother's death, the author returns to her. This is the book of the resurrected mother, who knows the offside rule and whose language, the language of football, shapes her whole relation to the world. The son exists only in relation to her, and so does everyone else. Football here is no longer a way of writing private history but a view of the world, rooted in the bond with the mother and the mother tongue. Readers looking for a family story find it in finely written, rounded episodes, along with feelings: a platonic love, the tenderness of a marriage, a mother's love and a father's.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

224 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Autofiction (assigned by AI)

Set in

Hungary

First published

2008 by Magvető

Author's age

58 when first published

ISBN

9789631426359 (original)