Dream makers in the streets of the city of golden friendship : on Filipino street children /
Bernadett Fekete ; translated by Andrea Könye ; cover design by Andrea Kiss
- 113 pages ; 21 cm.
"In my stories, I am writing about street children who were left alone with their problems. They can be seen shining shoes, washing cars, carrying sacks in the streets; they sell plastic bags, help out, market women in the marketplace, or simply beg or steal. I can smell their scent - glue and the acid smell of urine-, their skin became flaky with dirt, eyes got vacant. As the night draws near, they flock together, hide away and pull out plastic bags and glue, which they get cheap from the shoemaker. Then, at nights, high on glue, they would curl up on sidewalks or squares. It is a bit comforting that they do not feel hunger and not sense reality.They are making drea." The Hungarian author has worked in gipsy villages, in prisons, in hospital, in slums and in the streets as a social worker, not only in Hungary but in India and in the Philippines as well.