Leírás
For half a century now, John Miska has been the godfather of Hungarian writing in Canada. As a professional librarian and bibliographer, John positioned himself in the nation which adopted him so that he could aid the establishment of Hungarian literature and Hungarian studies in Canada – and an awareness of Hungarian/Canadian literature in his native land. But, as his own collections of elegant stories, Egy bögre tej (A Mug of Milk) and Túl a hídon (Over the Bridge) demonstrate, he has always been at heart a Hungarian peasant farmer, a populist tiller of the rich Magyar soil. It is this heritage he turned to the establishment and nurturing of a garden of poetry, fiction and discourse across the breadth of his new country in the New World. Kerosene Lamps is his modest memoir of how that came to be.
