Ebook {Epub PDF} Under the Frog by Tibor Fischer

 · Reading group: Under the Frog by Tibor Fischer. Trevor suggested this book, the satirical depiction of life in Hungary towards the end of the war and under Soviet rule up to the revolution, seen through the exploits of the randy, skiving, joking and scamming members of a basketball team. Its title is a reference to the Hungarian phrase for.  · Under the Frog by Tibor Fischer My rating: 5 of 5 stars. Amazon page. This book’s strange title derives from an old Hungarian saying of “under a frog’s arse [and down a coal mine.]” That’s the position the protagonist, Gyuri Fischer, feels himself to be in during the course of the book, running from end of the Second World War. Tibor Fischer is flamboyant in describing the trying times of Hungary, just after World War II, during the Russian occupation (somewhat) - but the surprising part is the wit, satire and pan - which help us to see beyond the unimaginable tragedy of the destruction of a country and the fast death of a vibrant society under communism.

Tibor Fischer was born in Stockport, England, in He is the author of three novels, Under the Frog (a Booker Prize finalist), The Thought Gang, and The Collector Collector. Don't Read This Book if You're Stupid is his first collection of stories. Tibor Fischer was born in Stockport in of Hungarian parents. Brought up in South London he was educated at Cambridge and worked as a journalist. He was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for his first novel, Under the Frog, which also won the Betty Trask Award, and he was nominated as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists. Under the Frog: A Novel by Tibor Fischer. Click here for the lowest price! Paperback, ,

Under the Frog is British-born Hungarian writer Tibor Fischer 's debut novel, it was published in The book was a winner of the Betty Trask Award and was the first debut novel to be shortlisted for the Booker Prize. The novel is a black comedy set in Hungary in the years immediately following the end of World War II and culminates in the uprising. This book’s strange title derives from an old Hungarian saying of “under a frog’s arse [and down a coal mine.]”. That’s the position the protagonist, Gyuri Fischer, feels himself to be in during the course of the book, running from end of the Second World War through the Hungarian Uprising of Tibor Fischer’s Under The Frog, ends with a scared, beaten-down, young man treading through the cold snow behind an injured countryman. Gyuri walks behind Kurucz in order to hide the tears streaming down his cheeks.