Gergely Ágnes - Mozdonygyári éjszakák

Ágnes Gergely's new book is about remembering. But the retrospective narrator is not interested in the great events and connections of the historical past, but in the details. The little things that make up a life. Or even if it doesn't come together, it gives sketches of the time in which he was given to live.
Punctuality, irretrievable past time, love of life. Absence and pain.
For example, the absence of a father.
"My father was called up thirteen times, first to the army, he was there during the recapture of the Southern Region, he was wounded in the leg. After that, he enlisted in labor service and disappeared on his last trip, in January 1945. Two of his comrades last saw him in Kőszeg, a third allegedly saw him in Mauthausen. The one who arrived in Mauthausen, it was taken by typhus, and whoever did not reach the truck was shot.
In 1995, on the fiftieth anniversary of the liberation of the camp, I went to Mauthausen. In 2013, I researched the prison camp in Ebensee. Mauthausen again in 2014, if I'm wrong. But not. My father's name is nowhere on the prisoner list."