God's Zoo

Divided into 27 chapters, the novel recounts some of the childhood experiences of FÉnix, a boy who grows up in the Hungarian city of IpolysÁg, within the context of the German invasion and the subsequent Russian advance and domination of Hungary. FÉnix, who supposedly got his name because he was born at the "dawn" of the Second World War, which his parents believed to be "Humanity''s rebirth, when...