The Circumcision - Gyorgy Dalos

"Dalos walks a tight-rope between irony and melancholy, joy and sorrow. He writes plainly about complexity, his prose is a long anecdote about history with everyday people in it."- George Konrad

"Set in Budapest, during the years of Stalinism, Dalos's novel depicts the vanishing world of the Hungarian Jewish petite bourgeoisie, through the eyes of a boy, longing for love and recognition."- Radio Bavaria

"Wisdom and humour against the shadows of existence:

Dalos, like Isaac B. Singer, is a follower of the great Yiddish literary traditions."- The Giessener Anzeiger

Brandl & Schlesinger 2001, paperback