Jó leszek deals with the unavoidable topic of sexual abuse of children. The novel also helps those not affected to understand what the victims go through, who need to know that they are not alone. And it is important for outsiders to understand how difficult it is to get out of such a situation. The main characters of the story: a fifteen-year-old girl who is abused by her own father, and a thirty-five-year-old woman who was once abused by her cousin. "...You know how hard it was not to tell my mother, how it was to wake up every day thinking that I would tell her today, and then going to bed with the disappointment that I didn't tell her today either." What was it like to live with the constant shame, what was it like to feel dirty, how much I could only think of myself as a... - He didn't finish the sentence. He had to remind himself that a fifteen-year-old girl was sitting across from him. - You're right. I feel the same way." This is not Zsuzsa Berkesi's first novel, although it is the first time she has published it under her own name. He wrote his previous, autobiographically inspired book, Sin or guilt, under the pseudonym Anoni Mara. After the publication of the book, he created the Anoni Mara Society and its website, beszeljrola.hu, where people who have suffered similar trauma can tell their own stories, promoting the healing of themselves and their peers. "Yesterday, he tried with his mother to speak - it was already the thousandth time like this, since he was tormented by the secret and did not want this torture - but again he did not succeed. How can you say such a thing, come on, say it now, you have to talk now, while you still have time - then her father came in and everything fell apart." Zsuzsa Berkesi was born in 1970 in Budapest. High school French teacher, mother of two children. In 2013, he wrote his own story under the pseudonym Anoni Mara, entitled Crime or punishment. In 2014, he created the beszeljrola.hu website and the Beszélj rozlé! project to finally break the silence around childhood sexual abuse. Although his current book, Jó leszek marz, is fiction, his own life and the experiences of his companions are interwoven.

Joshua Books Bt.
Novel
288 pages
Binding: tabbed, cardboard
ISBN: 9786155730382
Author: Zsuzsa Berkesi
Release year: 2022