His lonely bachelor’s life and the grim nature of life in a Soviet satellite is too much to bear. The book is a mostly chronological telling of the life story of a blue-collar worker who plays basketball well enough to be on the team of the factory he works for (and then, when he switches jobs, the railway.) Throughout the book, Gyuri wants nothing more than to leave Hungary behind. Of course, no tale of life under a Communist regime is without a share of tragedy as well, and that plays out to make a gripping finale. Not many can see, let alone convey, the great absurdist comedy of life under a totalitarian regime, but Tibor Fischer manages to do so. This book’s strange title derives from an old Hungarian saying of “under a frog’s arse ” That’s the position the protagonist, Gyuri Fischer, feels himself to be in during the course of the book, running from end of the Second World War through the Hungarian Uprising of 1956.
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