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Under the Frog

By Tibor Fischer

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Under the Frog

By Tibor Fischer

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The Hungarians have an expression for the worst place in the world to be: "Under the frog's ass down a coal mine." Under the Frog, Tibor Fischer's brilliant recreation of postwar Eastern Europe, was the surprise literary success of London, where it won the Betty Trask Award and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It is the very witty and very sad account of two young men who survive the chaos of communism as part of a traveling basketball team in pursuit of sex and the avoidance of work. Exuberant and energetic, Tibor Fischer's first novel is a fascinating and oblique commentary on everyday life during those dramatic years. Fischer writes with the verve and irreverence of Martin Amis, but the world he recreates is one we know from George Konrad and Milan Kundera.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
256
Release Date:
1995-05-01
Publication Date:
1995-05-01
Publisher:
New Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1565841492
ISBN13:
9781565841499
Weight:
272 g
Height:
133 cm
Width:
204 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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