Hűlt helyem

A stunning autobiographical look back. Through physical and mental ordeals and a series of hospital wards, the narrator travels back to the moment of his birth in a Debrecen clinic in 1962, through a motionless childhood and an eventful youth, to a bitter present. Chapter by chapter he speaks with merciless honesty about his addictions, illnesses, recoveries and present state. Meanwhile, like spirits or ghosts, the figures he once created from real people and relatives come to visit him, and in the end he sets out himself, like the wandering Szindbád of Hungarian literature, to meet them.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

220 pages in the original

Genres

Autofiction (assigned by AI)

Set in

Hungary

First published

2021 by Magvető

ISBN

9789631423778 (original)