Haász János - Apám giant lesz

János Haász appears with short stories that come together as a coherent story. His moving volume is a time travel into the past that is always with us, a bittersweet time capsule from the worn-out, otherwise lively world of the 1980s without mobile phones and the Internet, with a rocket-climbing, winter ice cream taste. Rusty bridges and football pitches, matchboxes and button football, Balaton dreams, getting to know each other at an Edda concert, small-town and Budapest adventures - and at the center of it all is a father who is magnified into a hero by childhood memories. A coming-of-age story, the main stake of which is not how we become adults, but how we can remain children in the meantime. The texts of the portfolio author, well-known from Telex.hu, form a special collection: like the members of a long-desired button football team.

"...I keep in me the sight of the city, the boulevard, from which the polar breweries, the Blahá, the Deák, the underground, the city park have disappeared, I carry that aged, shriveled city with me, like old photos that are faded by the years, and in each photo, as in each point of the city, only one small detail remains sharp, as if that small detail was taken at that moment, as if every moment of life is that moment in every point of the city, a man in a balloon jacket holding a little boy's hand ."

"This is great prose from Gyula, with the sumptuous flavors of the stormy corner! Precise like Krasznahorkai, nostalgic like László Kiss and delicious like Ottó Kiss. ​​János Haász waited until he could make his debut as a mature prose writer and his childhood was far enough away from him to be able to love it very much ." - Krisztián Grecsó