The book includes five stories by the most significant representatives of the new Hungarian prose - a generation that made extreme frankness as its creative credo in conversations about the most pressing problems of modernity and history, morality and love. In the stories “The Bible” by P. Nadas and “Fanchiko and Pinta” » P. Esterházy reveals the truth about the period of the cult of personality in Hungary through the prism of children’s perception. The works of J. Balazs (“Bury”) and S. Erdög (“The Repose of Lazar”) are about people of “ordinary” fate who, when faced with injustice, stand up for human dignity. “Dedication” by M. Ach is a story-essay about the journey of three young Hungarians to Italy; The conflict of the story is built on the principle of the classic “triangle”.