num_pages: 176
description: This book contains two novellas in one volume by Istvan Orkeny. In the Flower Show (1977)--the author exploits our universal unease in the face of death, the desire to 'star' taken to its ultimate absurdity by playing the lead in one's own demise, and the voyeurism of the modern media. In the Toth Family (1967), a mad army major on leave terrorizes a village fireman and his family, forcing them to cut and fold endless quantities of cardboard packing boxes every night until dawn.
language: English
title: The Flower Show and the Toth Family
titlecomplete: The Flower Show and the Toth Family
genres: Hungary, Hungarian Literature, Fiction, Literature
ratings_count: 126
publisher: New Directions