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Full Stop – Tamás Inczédy


I catch myself scratching the paint too. Under the crackled blue I can see the previous color; it could be any color, but it’s just a slightly different blue again. I wonder what might be under that one.

“Mom?”

“Yes?”

“Can I speak to dad?”





Tamás Inczédy is a well-known Hungarian writer, author of novels, several short stories and tales in the Hungarian language. He graduated from the University of Economics and then quit his office work and moved to Indonesia for three years. He taught at an Islamic university, while completing his first cycle of short stories The Juggler and the novel The Soup of Man. “Full Stop” was translated into English by Zoltán Botos.

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