BoMay reviewed The Picnic by Matthew Longo
Walls come down, walls go up
4 stars
Longo tells the story of the fall of the Iron Curtain in Hungary. Many of those involved in that drama played a part in the picnic at the center of this tale. It was odd reading about the dismantling of walls and of autocracies as our world now rebuilds both. Fittingly, the book ends with the rise of Orban. A hopeful story with a melancholic end.