Books with author Andres Laszlo Jr.

The Challenge is inspired by My Uncle Jacinto/Mi Tio Jacinto (written by your writer’s father: Andres Laszlo Sr.). This became a bestseller and a blockbuster movie, starring Pablito Calvo and Antonio Sico (directed by Ladislao Vajda). About the original story, a prominent Paris newspaper wrote; "Nothing like this has been written since The Little Prince." In Andres Laszlo Junior’s hands: Madrid becomes Cape Town; La Quinta, Mandela Park; 1940s, 2010s; bullfighting, boxing and 17,000 words, 75,000. However, it very much remains a book for children of all ages.

The Challenge is inspired by My Uncle Jacinto/Mi Tio Jacinto (written by your writer’s father: Andres Laszlo Sr.). This became a bestseller and a blockbuster movie, starring Pablito Calvo and Antonio Sico (directed by Ladislao Vajda). About the original story, a prominent Paris newspaper wrote; "Nothing like this has been written since The Little Prince." In Andres Laszlo Junior’s hands: Madrid becomes Cape Town; La Quinta, Mandela Park; 1940s, 2010s; bullfighting, boxing and 17,000 words, 75,000. However, it very much remains a book for children of all ages.

The Challenge: the Script is influenced by Andres Laszlo Sr.'s bestselling (and, as a movie, blockbusting) book My Uncle Jacinto. As a novel, The Challenge falls between adult and youth novel (a bit like The Little Prince with which the book shares many similarities). The writer’s father could "get away with this" – i.e. publishing in-between genres - as he at the time was an established writer. Junior’s adaptation, The Challenge, as a book, also falls between genres. However, as a movie, this concern vanishes, and as such it firmly falls within the category "Family Movie".