49–60 termék, összesen 68 db
Attila – A Barbarian’s Bedtime Story
$ 10.00This autobiographical first novel by a Budapest-born American poet and translator follows the destiny of Attila Nagy, from his Hungarian childhood under the Communist regime and his family’s escape to Cleveland following the revolution to his dysfunctional adulthood and unhappy marriage-all of which are redeemed by a lucky tumble into mythology.
Eclipse of the Crescent Moon (Egri csillagok)
The main historical events that are addressed are: the bloodless occupation of Buda, the seat of the Hungarian kings, in 1541, and the 1552 Siege of Eger (now in Northern Hungary) by the Turks, that forms the major topic of the novel.
Emlékiratok könyve I-II.
$ 49.90Az először 1986-ban megjelent nagyregény meghódította Európát és Amerikát, a világ kultúrájának részévé vált. A huszadik század emberének szellemi válságát és élettapasztalatát összegző nagy művek között tartják számon. Egy könyv, amelyet minden művelt embernek olvasnia kell!
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.