Originally published in 2016, the collection marks its tenth anniversary this year. The interlinked stories won the Libri Literary Award’s Jury Prize and inspired a stage play and a radio adaptation. With them, Jászberényi staked his claim in Hungarian literary fiction.
It remains the only contemporary Hungarian work to guide the reader through such a profound spiritual crisis: a rupture from God, where all prior faith and conviction lose their force. It speaks of the moment when the body drifts aimlessly in the dark, abandoned by the soul.

These stories have no moral lesson. If they reveal anything good in a person, it’s only by tracing the outline left by its absence.
Ten years after their publication, Jászberényi’s stories still gleam like shards of a smashed shop window under streetlights or muzzle flashes.