Book history
-Need to reseach
Finds himself in a new city
Weird doorman,
Likes the lift attendant she invites him to the roof for her smoke break
Visits a prostitute but just sit and tries to communicate
Visits abattoir, court and then a church, goes up to the dome for a view of the city.
-Half way-
Long descriptions of language history.
Sees a man with a Hungarian magazine in he metro, they shout Hungarian at each other but get swept apart.
Gets more involved with the lift attendant, and it's amusing how he refers to her has a different name each time.
They end up having sex, then he beats, but breaks down apologetically and then has sex again.
Doesnt pay his hotel bill so is kicked out. Doorman physically throw him out.
Becomes a tramp.
Tries the hotel again, get kicked out by the doorman and then he stumbled into a room with people being rialed up and given weapons. He gets involved in a kind of military cous or renegade operations. Turns into a full blown skirmish with tanks and grenades and lots of death.
Takes cover in the metro.
The final short chapter he wakes and finds lots of the damaged repaired or boarded up and everone acting as if nothing had happened the night before.
He finds a lake with a a run off stream and is filled with hope that the stream will lead him eventually to the sea and his freedom.
And that's how the book ends, with his vision of freedom after finding a tiny outlet stream.