ANDREA TOMPA Andrea Tompa was born in Cluj-Napoca in 1971. She graduated from the Faculty of Arts of Eötvös Loránd University with a degree in Russian. She is a writer and theater critic and editor-in-chief of the journal Színház. She has received numerous awards, including the Tibor Déry Prize, the Sándor Márai Prize and the Libri Literary Prize. She currently lives in Budapest.
dina and her husband had bought a house on the far side of the forest. A big house with a view of the hills behind the city. Safety, strong walls, space, a semicircular living room with floor-to-ceiling windows. After her walks, she would drop in on them. She would fall captive to the good life, to good conversation, and she would return to the hotel only late in the night. “Where are you rushing off to?” Edina would ask. “In a hurry to get back to a hotel?” Someone who lived in a hotel could hardly have anywhere to dash off to. Could hardly have any life at all. Edina had sought her out when she had read about how there was going to be a literary evening in the city. She had invited her to join her