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This 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.
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This 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.
Jaguar (1914) is the tale of the meteoric rise and fall of an apocryphal newspaper. The artfully constructed plot is set in the bohemian milieu of an easy-going fin de siecle Budapest – where Heltai himself was a young journalist – in which the telephone exists, cars do not, much importance attaches to coffee-houses and journalists rise late and work till all hours.
Esterházy 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
Charles traded hand grenades with other kids like one would trade baseball cards. At the age of twenty-one, he escaped from Communist Hungary to Canada via Communist Yugoslavia, and in the same year he was hit by lightning three times on the same farm. Charles has lived his life by his magical three D’s: Desire, Determination, and Drive.