An exciting autobiography or a typical fate story? Both at the same time: an inner journey written through the eyes of an outsider, the stations of which reveal the turning points of the early years of the well-known television, succinctly presenting the testing storms of the 20th century.
Kisneufeld was born in the thirties of the last century, he has to experience the horrors of war and persecution as a teenager in the forties, and then he tries to get by alone with his elderly grandmother in the madness of the fifties. The book follows the protagonist's coming of age, takes us through Tamás Vitray's childhood and young adulthood, with sufficient distance and a lot of humor. We can witness inevitable tragedies, lucky coincidences and determined struggles in this elegantly written novel full of twists and turns.
The writing of Tamás Vitray, the legendary television personality, is more than a look back at his childhood, it is also a portrait of his time, in which we can finally see a young man, beyond "training", as he enters the Hungarian Television building. Kisneufeld's story ends here, and at the same time a wonderful career begins: that of Tamás Vitray.