Mágneshegy

Enikő Börönd, a sociologist in her thirties, returns from New York to Budapest in the summer of 1999. She wants to research and write but finds herself blocked. Tamás Bogdán, also a sociologist and the first in his family to go to university, has a soaring career; he has affairs with his students and becomes entangled with Enikő. Meanwhile Réka, a student, ponders the pitfalls of becoming an intellectual and of writing as a woman. Parallel and crossing lives are shown from viewpoints in which anyone can look ridiculous or fallible, a broad picture of an academic world.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

382 pages in the original

Genres

Satire (assigned by AI)

Set in

Hungary, 1999

First published

2018 by Magvető

Author's age

39 when first published

ISBN

9789631436600 (original)