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Helping Verbs of the Heart
$ 25.00Esterházy achieved in this book a real literarian tour-de-force which mixes most unexpected and revealing ingredients. Two brothers and a sister, summoned by their father and reunited at the hospital where their mother lies on her deathbed, must come to grips with their relationships with both their parents
Memoir of Hungary 1944-1948
$ 45.00A seamless combination of the political, literary and personal history of postwar Hungary. This scathing, at times humorous, and always insightful memoir by exiled Hungarian novelist Sandor Marai provides one of the most poignant and humanly alive portraits of life in Hungary between the German occupation in 1944 and the solidification of communist power in 1948.
Mimi – The story of a Hungarian aristocrat before World War II.)
$ 28.95MIMI is a magnificent work, as is its heroine of the same name. She is a true aristocrat, yet at the same time a real human being. The social conflicts and political convulsions of the period of World War II are depicted beautifully and realistically. The tragedy of the victims of the holocaust brings their human misery right into the reader’s living room.
Nothing’s Lost: Twenty-Five Hungarian Short Stories
$ 22.9025 Hungarian stories depict life in Hungary as seen by some of the best Hungarian writers.
One Must Also Be Hungarian
$ 22.90The only country in the world with a line in its national anthem as desperate as “this people has already suffered for its past and its future,” Hungary is a nation defined by poverty, despair, and conflict. Its history, of course, took an even darker and more tragic turn during the Holocaust. But the story of the Jews in Hungary is also one of survival, heroism, and even humor—and that is the one acclaimed author Adam Biro sets out to recover in One Must Also Be Hungarian, an inspiring and altogether poignant look back at the lives of his family members over the past two hundred years.
Satantango
$ 29.00Set in an isolated hamlet, the novel unfolds over the course of a few rain-soaked days. Only a dozen inhabitants remain in the bleak village, rank with the stench of failed schemes, betrayals, failure, infidelity, sudden hopes, and aborted dreams.
The Adventures of Sindbad (Szindbád utazásai)
$ 25.00In these marvellously written tales, Sindbad, a voyager in the realms of memory and imagination, travels through the centuries in pursuit of an ideal of love that is directed as much at the feminine essence as at his individual lovers. He is by nature a melancholy sensualist, but whether the women he seduces and loves are projections of his desire, or he of theirs, is a moot question.
The Gold Coffin (Aranykoporsó)
$ 45.90This historical novel by Hungarian archaeologist Ferenc Mora, is based on the legend that Emperor Diocletian had his son raised by a gardener to keep his identity secret. Mora used the legend to create a sweeping recreation of the Diocletian reign with a poignant romance.
The Magician’s Garden and Other Stories
$ 42.90The Magician’s Garden offers a selection of stories ranging from impressionistic, metaphoric, and even surreal pieces to straightforward naturalism. An entire world and time is implicit in this group of twenty-four of his best fictions.
