Under The Frog
Tibor Fischer
  • Published: 1 November 2002
  • ISBN: 9780099438052
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $29.99

Under The Frog

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A tragicomic picaresque about two basketball players travelling through war-torn Hungary in pursuit of food, sex and adventure.

Tibor Fischer's hilarious first novel follows the adventures of two young Hungarian basketball players through the turbulent years between the end of World War II and the revolution of 1956. In this spirited indictment of totalitarianism, the two improbable heroes, Pataki and Gyuri, travel the length and breadth of Hungary in an epic quest for food, lodging, and female companionship.
  • Published: 1 November 2002
  • ISBN: 9780099438052
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $29.99
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About the author

Tibor Fischer

Tibor Fischer was born in Stockport in 1959 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.

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Praise for Under The Frog

I began Under the Frog on a crowded double decker in a London traffic jam...and soon found myself laughing like an idiot... It is a triumph...painfully moving, it is also uproariously funny

Guardian

A remarkable first novel

Daily Telegraph

Original and impressive... Sharp, funny and moving

Independent

A quite wonderful book... He takes a serious subject....and is seriously funny about it...the result is plausible, insolent, sophisticated and hungry... Glorious!

Michael Hoffman

A funny, slangy, tragic, impeccably researched romp... A richly convincing line-up of skivers, copulators, opportunists and, above all, survivors in the face of oppression

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