Her second novel, the spirited picaresque Communist Monte Cristo (Kommunista Monte Cristo, 2006), presents the history of Hungary from the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in 1919 to the aftermath of the anti-Communist uprising 1957 through the fate of the author’s great-grandfather as seen through the eyes of his son Sanyi, a vegetarian butcher and staunch communist. It was awarded the Literary Prize of the European Union in 2009. The author’s other works include A Mother’s Diary (A kismama naplója, 2003) and its sequel, The Memoir of the Baby (A Kisbaba naplója, 2004), based on the author’s blogs about motherhood.