Lovas Ildikó - A kis gravel

"Black and white, as an elephant I know these two colors. Of course, life is not black and white, things are not like that. It is not the 'either-or' that rules, but the 'and's, along with acquiescence, resignation, and wise acceptance. Confronting this fact caught up with me extremely ... Continue ›› late. Right when I saw the body that was found in the attic of the school, I saw that while it was about to be transported, the material that was covered with it slipped off. Since then I have been living my everyday life. I spend my days together with life, not with my own, I gave up on that a long time ago. With others, with their moments, moods, hopes, unexpected mood changes, but especially with their death, different types of death, suicides and violent deaths, his life as a matricide and political assassin and the death he caused, like a voyeur, an outsider, a lonely observer whose joy is the sight of a smile comes, from sorrow the distance of the gaze, from the feeling to the possibility, the never-realized - we can read "The small pebble" the testimony of one of its narrators, why he started investigating in a small town in Báčka when a corpse was found in the attic of the school. And how this multifaceted, crime-like investigation meets the fate of Leni Riefenstahl, the famous German film director who served the Nazi regime with her art - well, that's just one of the mysteries of the book. Ildikó Lovas's novel is cinematically fast-paced, extremely rich and keeps the reader in suspense throughout. Like a real crime story.

Kalligram Publishing House
Novel
328 pages
Binding: softboard glued
ISBN: 9788081013645
Author: Ildikó Lovas