Books set in Hungary (52)
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A Guest in My Own Country: A Hungarian Life by George Konrad EN
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Winner of the 2007 National Jewish Book Award in the category of Biography, Autobiography & Memoir A powerful memoir of war, politics, literature, and family life by one of Europe's leading intellectuals. When George Konrad was a child of eleven, he, his sister, and two cousins managed to flee to Budapest from the Hungarian countryside the day before deportations swept through his home town. Ultimately, they were the only Jewish children of the town to survive the Holocaust. A Guest in My Own Country recalls the life of one of Eastern Europe's most accomplished modern writers, beginning with h... continue
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Abigail by Magda Szabó EN
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A teenage girl's difficult journey towards adulthood in a time of war. "Szabo is skilful at creating moments of heart-rending tension, often through exquisite, evocative prose . . . the novel has a devastating power" Spectator Of all her novels, Magda Szabó's Abigail is the most widely read in her native Hungary. Now, fifty years after it was written, it appears for the first time in English, joining Katalin Street and The Door in a loose trilogy about the impact of war on those who have to live with the consequences. It is late 1943 and Hitler, exasperated by the slowness of his Hungarian all... continue
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Alondra by Dezső Kosztolányi ES
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Septiembre de 1899. en una pequeña ciudad de provincias del Imperio austrohúngaro, la hija de los Vajkay, llamada cariñosamente Alondra, se dispone a pasar una semana de vacaciones con sus tíos. La despedida en la estación es dolorosa, pues los días que d
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Anna ʹEdes by Dezső Kosztolányi EN
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Kosztolanyi, Anna Edes. Cruelty and emptiness of Bourgeois life permeate this novel.
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Bajo el culo del sapo by Tibor Fischer ES
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Estar «bajo el culo del sapo» equivale para los húngaros a nuestro vulgar «estar jodido». Y jodidos van a estar los húngaros Gyuri y Pataki en vísperas del año 1956. Hasta entonces las cosas no les habían ido del todo mal. Amigos inseparables desde 1944, cuando, aún jóvenes soldados, se dedicaban a saquear lo que los nazis no se habían llevado, viajan por toda la nación formando parte de un equipo de baloncesto con tres únicos objetivos: los placeres del sexo, la holgazanería y la subversión de las normas del estado comunista. En su desaforada picaresca conoceremos a una galería de personajes ... continue
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Blood Countess (Lady Slayers) by Lana Popovic EN
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In 1578 Hungary, sixteen-year-old Anna is elevated from scullery maid to chambermaid by the young and glamorous Countess Elizabeth Báthory, falling completely under the Countess's spell until Anna realizes that she is not a friend but a prisoner of the increasingly cruel and murderous Elizabeth.
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Budapest Noir : A Novel by Vilmos Kondor EN
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The passing of the Hungarian prime minister before he could realize his dream of a fascist state has little effect on crime reporter Zsigmond Gordon. Life—and death—go on in the bustling old city, and a late-night tip soon leads him to a crime scene where a young woman lies dead, a Jewish prayer book in her purse. Disturbed by the bizarre circumstances—the corpse of a beautiful, well-groomed, religious victim abandoned in one of Budapest's seedier neighborhoods—Gordon is determined to unravel the mystery of her demise, especially after her shocking identity is revealed. The investigation will ... continue
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Budapest: Between East and West by Victor Sebestyen EN
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A ‘biography’ of Budapest, from it’s founding to the fall of the Iron Curtain.