Summary
Zsuzsa Bank: Vedri dani
When Aja comes to her small town in southern Germany, everything will change for Seri: she will gain a friend for life. Aja lives in a colorful, crooked house at the end of town and perfectly knows how to perform a star and many circus tricks because her parents are circus performers, who escaped from Hungary to the West. In the bright days of their childhood, Karl joins them and they remain friends forever.
But an idyllic childhood is anything but simple. Sera's father died shortly after she was born, Aja's mother can't read or write, and her father wanders around with the circus and only appears once a year. Karl's parents are divorced, and his younger brother disappeared in a stranger's car. Their mothers, so different in origin and professions, become best friends through their children and personal tragedies and do everything for their children to grow up happily.
Twenty years of growing up, changes, bright summer days and gloomy winters, life in a provincial German town and the Eternal City, lies, fraud, betrayal, small fortunes, great hopes, joy, celebrations, love... Zsuzsa Bánk, one of the most translated contemporary German writer, in her novel Bright Days describes life in its fullness.
"Zsuzsa Bánk approaches her characters with great empathy... Adolescents gradually learn how fragile their idyll is, how dark shadows exist even though we don't see them and how pain doesn't go away even though you believe you've found its source."
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
"This sad fairy tale is also an allegory of insatiable longing for former happiness - and this musical and sometimes too clever book is at least some consolation."
Neue Zürcher Zeitung
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