A review by millen13
Under The Frog by Tibor Fischer

4.0

Set in communist Hungary in the years following the end of WW2 leading up to the Hungarian Revolution. (A conflict in which nearly 20,000 Hungarians were killed by the Russians, while 21,600 were imprisoned afterwards for political reasons.) Under the Frog follows two friends during those years of 1944 to 1956 managing to sketch the political landscape and communist oppression while staying light-hearted under pressure. This is a marvellous read and an open-hearted insight into an era we hear little to nothing about here in Western Europe.