Semmi kis életek

Under the dictatorship many people get through the days by clinging to small, tangible joys, like the characters of this first novel, fallible, defenceless and full of childish desires, all of them children of the late dictator. They live in a doll's house on Törekvés Street in a communist small town, and Ceaușescu's glass dome stretches over them everywhere. Their lives are made of love, parades, betrayal and fear, where everything and nothing are separated by a hair: a sentence spoken at the wrong moment, an accident, a secret policeman's change of mood. With disturbing but consoling humour, the novel tells of Romania in the years before the fall of the regime and after it, through characters history walks over.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Genres

Politics, Satire (assigned by AI)

Set in

Romania

First published

2011 by Libri

Author's age

39 when first published