About the book: 2012 / Famous writer and reporter Krzysztof Warga (b. 1968) Pole on his mother’s side, Hungarian on his father’s side. This badass book about Hungary is written in Polish: not only in terms of language, but also in terms of style. She caustically ridicules national mythology and at the same time is full of melancholy, characteristic of stories about the places where she spent her childhood. Varga writes about the daily life of the Pest suburbs, street protests against the Gyurcsany government, about old trolleybuses, his favorite eateries and small restaurants that are unknown to tourists, about traveling with his old father from Warsaw to Budapest... Turul is, according to the author, “ a cross between an eagle and a goose,” the personification of “the Hungarian dream and Hungarian complexes.” But in the story about the complexes of a small country, its grotesque, imperial claims, not only Hungary is visible. This is a portrait of every society that lives by false ideas about itself..