Original title: Nagypénteken nem illik kertészkedni
Title in English: Not Polite to Work in the Garden on Good Friday
Publisher: Scolar
Year of publication: 2019
Number of pages: 208
Complete English translation available
Original title: Szívhang
Title in English: Heartbeat
Publisher: Scolar
Year of publication: 2022
Number of pages: 170
Rights sold: Croatia, Serbia
Missed ab, a lifeless embryo in the uterus, five millimeters, scheduled for scraping – that’s the diagnosis of our protagonist. The setting of the story is the six-bed room G, where vulnerable young girls and women who are waiting for an abortion, and those who are afraid of the abortion spend the slowly passing time together. The burned-out staff of the rural hospital is doing its job, there is no time and no energy for understanding.
The women in the village say that time helps. God has taken away and will give another. One in four ends this way. No need to cry, it will pass. It happened to someone else, and now she has twins. The chicks hatch, the neighbor’s cat gives birth three times, a stork flies over the house. How can you not constantly think about why it is so easy for others?