Fülszöveg
'I began Under the Frog on a crowded double decker in a London traffic jam and soon found myself laughing like an idiot It is a triumph painfully moving, it is also uproariously funny' - Noah Richler in the Guardian
This is Hungary towards the end of the war and before the 1956 revolution. Or, to put it another way, 'under a frog's arse down a coalmine' - the Hungarian expression for when you are truly at the
lowest point of life.
'A quite wonderful book He takes a serious subject, Hungary from 1944 to 1956, and is seriously funny about it The result is plausible, insolent, sophisticated and hungry Glorious!' - Michael Hofmann in The Times
'A remarkable first novel' - David Holloway in the Daily Telegraph
'Funny, slangy, tragic, impeccably researched romp in the company of Gyuri and his pals of the Locomotive basketball team a richly convincing line-up of skivers, copulators, opportunists and, above all, survivors in the face of oppression' - Peter Reading in...
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Fülszöveg
'I began Under the Frog on a crowded double decker in a London traffic jam and soon found myself laughing like an idiot It is a triumph painfully moving, it is also uproariously funny' - Noah Richler in the Guardian
This is Hungary towards the end of the war and before the 1956 revolution. Or, to put it another way, 'under a frog's arse down a coalmine' - the Hungarian expression for when you are truly at the
lowest point of life.
'A quite wonderful book He takes a serious subject, Hungary from 1944 to 1956, and is seriously funny about it The result is plausible, insolent, sophisticated and hungry Glorious!' - Michael Hofmann in The Times
'A remarkable first novel' - David Holloway in the Daily Telegraph
'Funny, slangy, tragic, impeccably researched romp in the company of Gyuri and his pals of the Locomotive basketball team a richly convincing line-up of skivers, copulators, opportunists and, above all, survivors in the face of oppression' - Peter Reading in the Independent on Sunday
'Original and impressive first novel sharp, funny and moving' - Ian Mclntyre in the Independent Books of the Year
'Truly funny truth and imagination work together in a first novel to be treasured' - Frederic Raphael in the Spectator
WINNER OF A BETTY TRASK AWARD 1992
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