Battlefields and playgrounds
By: Janos Nyiri ; translated from the Hungarian by William Brandon and the author.
Contributors: Brandon, William, 1914-
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 536
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Hungary -- Fiction.; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Hungary -- Fiction.; Budapest (Hungary) -- History -- 1872-1945 -- Fiction.
Description: It is the story of Jozsef Sondor, a tough, irreverently witty Jewish boy growing up in World War II Hungary. Jozsef carries the reader into the whirl of everyday life in war-torn Budapest, from the eve of the Holocaust in Hungary to the Russian liberation in 1945. Through his eyes, we witness history, or, as he sees it, the adult world gone mad. What is this "Jewish problem," he asks. And what can God be thinking of?

Jozsef soon finds that his questions have no simple answers, but they do lead him on a journey to understanding the war, politics, religion, and, in the end, the complexity of human nature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 533-536).