The Last Window Giraffe describes the world of the seventies and eighties in a playful form. It is a book of a whole generation and is based on a children's dictionary which was entitled Window-Giraffe (Ablak-Zsiráf, Ablak=Window being the first item and Zsiráf=Giraffe being the last item in this A to Z). The Window-Giraffe explained the whole world in simple words, where everything was in order and problems were always solved. The author had been travelling throughout Eastern Europe during the series of protests that changed the so-called 'soft dictatorships' with the conviction that the best way to understand it was through the end. The book also describes the events of the Carnival like protest of Belgrade 1996-97' as being symbolic of all protests in its courage and absurdity. This humorous style mirrors the way the regime treated the people like children. The system ceased to exist at the year of his graduation from school and thus memories of childhood and regime become interdependent and the hero's character grows out of dictatorship as time goes by. The Last Window Giraffe is a lexicon of what's been left out.

Poetry
A selection of poems in translations (and sound recordings in the original language) can be accessed on the LiteraturWERKstatt site.

Radioplay
From the novel The Last Window Giraffe an award winning Hungarian radioplay was made. If your Hungarian is good enough, you can download it here:
Radioplay in Hungarian (mp3, 23 MB)
Radioplay in Hungarian (windows, 26 MB)