Oy Vey!
“You couldn't cry on my father's shoulder.” A good opening sentence – with a slight exaggeration – contains the entire novel.
But why shouldn't you cry?
"Ever since I was a child, I had seen it as a sign of weakness, so I tried with all my might to hold it back until I got home to my mother, but I often failed. When he saw my tears, he didn't say anything, he just pulled his mouth back as if he had bitten into rotten meat. I felt ashamed. Yet he taught me early on that ruthlessness is human, mercy is
exceptional."
The narrator wants to understand his father, who is traumatized, simple, ruthless, charming, and who stubbornly keeps quiet about his childhood. However, the protagonist does not give up. Victoria Lugosi is a stubborn and gentle questioner, the story is twisty and shocking, the text is precise, delicate prose. Ultimately, the reader holds in his hands a novel of forgiveness.
And in it, a never-before-told story about the years of the Deszk Children's Village. The writer uses the tools of fiction to evoke Deszk, whose mission after World War II was to rehabilitate orphaned and half-orphaned children and prepare them to start a new life in Israel, healthy in body and soul. The majority left, but some stayed.
Readers have never encountered a shocking literary work that captures the unadorned reality of the lives of Jewish children who survived the war and were stranded in Hungary, yet is imaginative, detailed, and tender in its treatment.
MIGRATION LOBSTER
A businessman. A bank clerk. A history teacher. A housewife. Nothing in common, nothing in particular. But they are tied together by the fall of socialism, which robs them of their dreams and opportunities, the city, which could be any city in Eastern Europe, and a secret. A swirling, eddying story about the past thirty years, about hope, blunders, confusion, and delusion in the post-socialist world.
HÜMMÖGŐ
A giraffe has escaped from the zoo because the animals there are being mistreated. The wise Hummingbird and his friends come up with a diabolical plan to save all the suffering. Finally, new elections are called to decide who will be the new director of the zoo. And at this point, we are still just at the beginning of the adventures.
"The clever troubleshooter Hümmögő or the infinitely vain Empilla never pay for their weakness, the latter sacrifices his pride and his sloppy red tail in a barter, in return he receives a cure for ladybugs, and of course he is glorified in the end. The story is as intricate as a novel, and Lugosi takes great care to sew the threads together."
DAFKE
A giraffe has escaped from the zoo because the animals there are being mistreated. The wise Hummingbird and his friends come up with a diabolical plan to save all the suffering. Finally, new elections are called to decide who will be the new director of the zoo. And at this point, we are still just at the beginning of the adventures.
"The clever troubleshooter Hümmögő or the infinitely vain Empilla never pay for their weakness, the latter sacrifices his pride and his sloppy red tail in a barter, in return he receives a cure for ladybugs, and of course he is glorified in the end. The story is as intricate as a novel, and Lugosi takes great care to sew the threads together."