“With the help of his edgy humor, András Maros perfectly pictures the huge difference between the Western and the Eastern world.”
e-kultura.hu
Love Forty
a novel
2013, Magvető Publishing
Love Forty takes readers through anecdotes and stories involving my peers and myself—we were boys who yearned not only to be world-class tennis stars but also sought freedom from the country's communist regime.
Readers will come away with a powerful sense of what it means to be isolated from the Western world while constantly dreaming of being a part of it. Ultimately, Love Forty makes us realize that breaking the rules is the most natural answer in a world where everything comes down to rules.
Kritikák
“The book is a brilliant drawing of a determining time period, it is a smartly built-up character development story presented in great style.”
Heti Válasz
“András Maros has brought an absolutely unique voice, an absolutely unique perspective to Hungarian literature.”
168 Óra
“Through the life of a Hungarian tennis club which copies the professional foreign ones––and is therefore funnily unprofessional––we get to know the “behind-the-iron-curtain-life” of Hungary better as if we were watching the television news of those times.”
Népszabadság
“Love Forty by András Maros is a very entertaining novel of the 80’s written in a light-hearted tone of voice and in a tight style.”
Magyar Nemzet