Minus Money
Gábor Deutsch
1997
Great was the joy in the mid-1950s in Budapest’s Klauzál Square, in the house of a widow with many children. Those lining up before her vegetable stand in the market saw her smile for the first time in years. And she had every reason to: her youngest son had won a nationwide competition for schools in mathematics and was therefore accepted to study…
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