Books set in Hungary (52)
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Oorlog en oorlog by László Krasznahorkai NL
HungaryDescription:
De wat wereldvreemde Gyorgy Korin werkt bij een archief in een Hongaars provinciestadje. Op een dag vindt hij daar een merkwaardig manuscript. Het is onduidelijk wie het geschreven heeft en wanneer. Het vertelt het verhaal van vier mannen, die in de verschillende hoofdstukken, zonder chronologie of logica, in steeds andere periodes van de wereldgeschiedenis opduiken – van de Bronstijd op Minoïsch Kreta tot de Romeinse provincie Britannia, in Gibraltar ten tijde van Columbus – voortdurend op de vlucht voor oorlog en verwoesting.
Korin raakt gefascineerd door de teksten en be... continue
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RomaniaDescription:
Plimbarea este povestea unui copil abandonat al revolutiei, un orfan al Estului la intersectia marilor conflicte ideologice. Este relatarea maturizarii sale intr-o lume framintata de insurectii impodobite cu pene de paun, marcata in egala masura de ostilitatea celor din jur si de dragostea putinilor apropiati, ce vor cadea pe rind in bratele mortii. Copilul care incarunteste in somn, blestemat parca sa-i piarda pe toti cei de care se ataseaza, deapana firul unei vieti de-o stranietate care sfirseste prin a deveni dureros de familiara. Concizia fermecator controlata a stilului contribuie in mod... continue
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Satantango by László Krasznahorkai EN
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Tells the story of a small hamlet in Hungary, near the end of the Communist period, on the brink of collapse following years of failure, betrayal, and aborted dreams.
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Sin destino by Imre Kertész ES
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Historia del año y medio de la vida de un adolescente en diversos campos de concentración nazis (experiencia que el autor vivió en propia carne), “Sin destino” no es, sin embargo, ningún texto autobiográfico. Con la fría objetividad del entomólogo y desde una distancia irónica, Kertész nos muestra en su historia la hiriente realidad de los campos de exterminio en sus efectos más eficazmente perversos: aquellos que confunden justicia y humillación arbitraria, y la cotidianidad más inhumana con una forma aberrante de felicidad. Testigo desapasionado, “Sin destino” es, por encima de todo, gran li... continue
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Skylark by Dezso Kosztolanyi EN
SerbiaDescription:
It is 1900, give or take a few years. The Vajkays—call them Mother and Father—live in Sárszeg, a dead-end burg in the provincial heart of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Father retired some years ago to devote his days to genealogical research and quaint questions of heraldry. Mother keeps house. Both are utterly enthralled with their daughter, Skylark. Unintelligent, unimaginative, unattractive, and unmarried, Skylark cooks and sews for her parents and anchors the unremitting tedium of their lives. Now Skylark is going away, for one week only, it’s true, but a week that yawns endlessly for her p... continue
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PolandDescription:
Dos amigos recorren el este de Europa con una camioneta desvencijada, siempre a punto de reventar y dejarlos tirados en la cuneta de alguna de las innumerables fronteras que cruzan para vender ropa de segunda mano de los países occidentales. Con una ironía mordaz, Andrzej Stasiuk traza el periplo de ambos personajes por los lugares más pobres y asombrosos, donde colocar sus prendas resulta cada vez más complicado a causa de la competencia de los productos chinos. Un apasionante cuadro de los márgenes de la sociedad de consumo en Europa, donde la vida cambia a... continue
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The Bone Fire by György Dragomán EN
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“A story in which dreams and phantasms are kinder . . . than the random brutality of the concrete world. . . . [the] telling is not just magic, but enchantment.” —Rebecca Makkai, New York Times Book Review Thirteen-year-old Emma grows up under an Eastern European dictatorship where oppression seems eternal. When her dissident parents die in a car accident, she’s taken to an orphanage, only to be adopted soon after by a grandmother she has never met. While her homeland is shattered by a violent revolution, Emma comes to learn the ways of her new grandmother, who can tell fortunes from coffee dr... continue
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The Choice : Embrace the Possible by Edith Eva Eger, Esmé Schwall Weigand EN
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A powerful, moving memoir, and a practical guide to healing, written by Dr. Edie Eger, an eminent psychologist whose own experiences as a Holocaust survivor help her treat patients suffering from traumatic stress disorders.
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One of The New York Times Book Review's "10 Best Books of 2015" An NYRB Classics Original The Door is an unsettling exploration of the relationship between two very different women. Magda is a writer, educated, married to an academic, public-spirited, with an on-again-off-again relationship to Hungary’s Communist authorities. Emerence is a peasant, illiterate, impassive, abrupt, seemingly ageless. She lives alone in a house that no one else may enter, not even her closest relatives. She is Magda’s housekeeper and she has taken control over Magda’s household, becoming indispensable to her. And ... continue
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From the author of The Door and Abigail and for fans of Elena Ferrante and Clarice Lispector, a newly translated novel about a theater star who is forced to reckon with her painful and tragic past. In The Door, in Iza’s Ballad, and in Abigail, Magda Szabó describes the complex relationships between women of different ages and backgrounds with an astute and unsparing eye. Eszter, the narrator and protagonist of The Fawn, may well be Szabó’s most fascinating creation. Eszter is an only child. She grows up in a provincial Hungarian town with her father, an eccentric aristocrat and steeply downwar... continue