Bánki Éva - Esőváros

Éva Bánki's first novel was published in 2004, and now the reader can pick it up in a new, revised edition. The multi-threaded, excitingly multi-layered story presents the fate of the members of two peasant families in Csalloköz in the shadow of the 20th century world wars, regime changes and resettlement. The majority of the actors not only want to survive and prosper, but also want to become citizens, but the big question is whether there is any kind of autonomous, non-supervised way of doing this in Hungary.
In this large-scale family novel, the Tormás and Bujdosós search for their place in the world, society and family through generations. The enthusiastic innovator Tormas and the Bujdosos who cherish their mystical traditions are drawn apart from time to time by their own desires and merciless historical twists, but what can unite the living and the dead, those living on one side of the border and those separated abroad? Is there anything besides the testimony of a novel, i.e. fiction, that can hold a large family together?

"...I prayed not to dirty the bed during my agony, this is very important, vitally important, I told the Lord. I smiled at the words vitally important, and I knew that in a few seconds I would hear the horn of the emigrant ship, they would take off from my window, the Csallóköz 104 , 105s, my brother's planes, and they're going to America."