The Porcelain Figurine

Eva Mecs’s novel is best defi ned from the perspective of a psychological dimension. It’s a story of an unfulfilled love which still undoubtedly and entirely determined anindividual.The author sociologically describes a very exact and captivating description of a dictatorial era.The novel is also outstandingly complete from the point of psychoanalitical interpretation.The storyline runs in parallel timelevels. A grammatically brilliant composition, and anintellectually uplifting experience where the historical veracity is unquestionable. It alsobrings a spiritually rich content about the never, or a thousand times experienced paradoxof love.Dr Tibor BalazsDirector of Accordia Publishing, BudapestOnce upon a time there was a girl, with a beautiful, proud bearing, talent’s star high on herforehead . . .She was born in the outlying portion of Hungary (as was I), wearing the signature red scarf ofthe young pioneers in the sixties, becoming a big girl in the seventies, maturing in the earlyeighties to fi nd her place in her chosen calling (as did I).After a while, turning her back to everything (home, family, career) she escapes to the otherside of the vast ocean . . . . Why? What secrets haunt and drive her? What prompted the needto reexamine her life from this great distance, from without and above? To me that is whatthis novel is about - our fate, as viewed in the mirror of our past . . . .Anna Kubik'Érdemes Mûvész & Jászai prize' actressWhat’s amazing is how personally history filters through the years and life in this novel,ending up on the pages in such a way that it becomes an experience for the reader as well.After reading Eva Mecs’s novel, it certainly became part of me too.Emmerich Oross