Full name: Under the Frog: A Novel

Author: Tibor Fischer Year: 1993 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Award winners, Fiction, Historical fiction, Humor Culture: Hungary Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780312278717 0312278713

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Under the Frog follows the adventures of two young Hungarian basketball players through the turbulent years between the end of World War II and the anti-Soviet uprising of 1956. In this spirited indictment of totalitarianism, the two improbable heroes, Pataki and Gyuri, travel the length and breadth of Hungary in an epic quest for food, lodging, and female companionship. Similar books: The Idiot by Elif Batuman A Misalliance by Anita Brookner The Bottle Factory Outing by Beryl Bainbridge Letters by John Barth The Needle's Eye by Margaret Drabble Worst Fears by Fay Weldon Aurora Dawn by Herman Wouk The Ordinary Seaman by Francisco Goldman An Underachiever's Diary by Benjamin Anastas The Game of Opposites by Norman Lebrecht Darconville's Cat by Alexander Theroux Never Mind by Edward St. Aubyn Visits from the Drowned Girl by Steven Sherrill Traveling Sprinkler by Nicholson Baker A Cannibal in Manhattan by Tama Janowitz A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif The Help by Kathryn Stockett A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate