Whenever Peter Zwack can be persuaded to pause for a moment in his headlong progress and tell people the story of his life, they always say: „but this is a book…” Which is how the idea was born to write the personal memoir. „If you wear galoshes, you're an émigré” is the unique and compelling story of an émigré who lost everything except his galoshes and his accent and, in the new Hungary, was to win it all back.