Tibor/Noémi has visited the women's section of a shoe store for the first time. Another customer groaned and called her names, the salesperson complimented the choice of boots and smiled. Tibor/Noémi tried to smile too. That was four weeks ago. Today she would go out into town in boots. But now she sits alone in an armchair with her body, and each hates the other.
Incognito is an impressive depiction of how a football-loving youth finds a stranger in herself and her body. It is a coming-of-age story, a coming-of-the-closet story, and a skilled, frantic novel in its minimalist conciseness about creating one's identity in the cross-pressures of one's own feelings and the surprise and disapproval of the surrounding society.
Tibor Noé Kiss (native order: Kiss Tibor Noé) is a Hungarian writer living in Pécs, Hungary. She was born as Tibor in 1976 in Kispest. From the age of ten to seventeen, she was trained as a young talented soccer player in the big Budapest club Ferencváros. After graduating from high school in Budapest, she worked at the Hungarian Post Office as a newspaper delivery person.
In 1995, as she recalls, she went out on the street dressed in female clothes for the first time, and her wig got caught in a branch and flew off her head, but she managed to quickly put it back on. She studied journalism and sociology. She now lives and works in Pécs as a technical editor and administrator of the Jelenkor magazine website.
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Photo via kisstibornoe.hu - by Zsuzsanna Komjathy.
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