John Updike - Nyúlketrec

Ten years have passed since Rabbit's Shoes, John Updike continues the story of Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom in his novel published in English in 1971. The former athlete turned into a pot-bellied, thirty-six-year-old conservative, while the calmness of America that was customary in the Eisenhower era was thoroughly disturbed: the whirlwind of technical progress, imagination, drugs and violence kept the country moving. The family moved away from Núl, a fugitive "flower child" and a radical beat up the farm in his home, his past has shriveled into a symbolic inner landscape, everything lies in ruins. However, even in these circumstances, Angstrom clings to the last remnants of good feeling and sense of responsibility - his greatest desire is to belong somewhere and believe in something.

The Rabbit Cage is John Updike's famous series of novels, the second volume of the five-volume Rabbit series. First published in Hungarian in 1988, translated by Árpád Göncz, 21. Század Kiadó now publishes the unforgettable classic of twentieth-century American literature in a new translation by László Gy. Horváth.