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Based on true events, this sprawling love story of hope, courage, and redemption will stay with readers long after finishing the book.
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Based on true events, this sprawling love story of hope, courage, and redemption will stay with readers long after finishing the book.
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Based on true events, this sprawling love story of hope, courage, and redemption will stay with readers long after finishing the book.
December of 1944, the Red Army entered Budapest to begin one of the bloodiest sieges of the Second World War. By February, the siege was over, but its effects were to be felt for decades afterward. Siege 13 is a collection of thirteen linked stories about this terrible time in history, both its historical moment, but also later, as a legacy of silence, haunting, and trauma that shadows the survivors.
It is Easter Sunday, April 1945, early in the morning, maybe just dawn. We stand still, like frozen grey statues. Us. Seven hundred and thirty women, wrapped in wet, grey, threadbare blankets, standing in the rain. Our blankets hang over our heads, drape down to the soil. We hold them closed with our hands from the inside, leaving only a small opening to peer out, so that we save the precious warmth of our breath…
A X. század derekán járunk, a magyar törzsszövetség már csak nevében viseli e megnevezést. Nyugaton Taksony fejedelem uralkodik, a keleti részeket Bulcsú főhorka uralja. Kettejük közül az utóbbi bír nagyobb hatalommal, és külhonban is őt tekintik a magyarok tényleges vezetőjének
