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Originally published in 1942 and now rediscovered to international acclaim, this taut and exquisitely structured novel by the Hungarian master Sandor Marai conjures the melancholy glamour of a decaying empire and the disillusioned wisdom of its lastheirs.In a secluded woodland castle an old General prepares to receive a rare visitor, a man who was once his closest friend but who he has not seen in forty-one years. Over the ensuing hours host and guest will fight a duel of words and silences, accusationsand evasions. They will exhume the memory of their friendship and that of the General's beautiful, long-dead wife. And they will return to the time the three of them last sat together following a hunt in the nearby forest--a hunt in which no game wastaken but during which something was lost forever. Embers is a classic of modern European literature, a work whose poignant evocation of the past also seems like a prophetic glimpse into the moral abyss of the

The Hungarian Revolution in 1956 is a story of extraordinary bravery in a fight for freedom, and of ruthless cruelty in suppressing a popular dream. A small nation, its people armed with a few rifles and petrol bombs, had the will and courage to rise upagainst one of the world's

Anxious to please his bourgeois father, Mihaly has joined the family firm in Budapest. Pursued by nostalgia for his bohemian youth, he seeks escape in marriage to Erzsi, not realising that she has chosen him as a means to her own rebellion. On theirhoneymoon in Italy Mihaly loses his bride at a provincial station and embarks on a chaotic and bizarre journey that leads him finally to Rome. There all the death-haunted and erotic elements of his past converge, and he, like Erzsi, has finally to

At an end-of-the London season soiree, the young Hungarian scholar-dilettante Janos Batky is introduced to the Earl of Gwynedd, a reclusive eccentric who is the subject of strange rumours. Invited to the family seat, Pendragon Castle in North Wales,Batky receives a mysterious phone-call warning him not to go... Antal Szerb's first novel The Pendragon Legend (1934), set in Wales is a gently satirical blend of gothic and romantic genres, crossed with the murder mystery format to produce a fast-movingand often hilarious romp. But beneath the surface, the reader becomes aware of a steely intelligence probing moral, psychological and religious questions.The book is a philosophical thriller/comedy/murder-mystery/ghost story set first in London and then in Wales. A mystical element is diffused through an increasingly complex plot, as all threads converge in the final chapters.

Faludy György életének állomásai közé tartozik Franciaország, Magyarország, Marokkó, Afrika, az Egyesült Államok és Kanada,majd ismét Magyarország. Hol a háború borzalmai, hol az ötvenes évek szörnyűségei elől kellett menekülnie. A legborzalmasabb azonban a recski fogolytábor volt. Ez

56 és a kosárlabda? Hogy jön ez össze? Hát legalább úgy, ahogy 56 és a foci. Ez már persze ismerősebb mindenkinek, a magyarok többsége pontosan tudja, mit élt át a magyar válogatott és a többi sportolónk külföldön az olimpián, míg itthon zajlott aforradalom. A magyar származású, de

Rejtő Jenő A tizennégy karátos autó című könyvét Baczoni Márk fordította angol nyelvre.

Winner of the 2015 Man Booker International PrizeWar & War begins at a point of danger: on a dark train platform Korim is on the verge of being attacked and robbed by thuggish teenagers. From here, we are carried along by the insistent voice of this nervous clerk. Desperate, at times almost mad, butalso keenly empathic, Korim has discovered in a small Hungarian town's archives an antique manuscript of startling beauty: it narrates the epic tale of brothers-in-arms struggling to return home from a disastrous war.

With THE WHITE KING, György Dragomán won the prestigious Sándor Márai prize. An urgent, humorous and melancholy picture of a childhood behind the Iron Curtain it introduces a stunning new voice in contemporary fiction.Eleven-year-old Djata makes sure he is always home on Sundays. It is the day the State Security came to take his father away, and he believes it will be a Sunday when his father finally comes home again.'Electric, urgent, luminous ... a coming-of-age with a difference' Daily Mail

The No.1 European Bestseller. In an over-crowded hospital ward in the sweltering summer of July 1945, Miklos is propped up against a pillow. He is writing a letter of hope. It doesn't matter that Miklos is bruised and battered, that his skin shares thesame colour as a greying pile of ash, or that the doctor told him You have six months to live. Because, now, for the first time since the war, he feels truly alive. Miklos is thinking of things far more important than his health. He is thinking that hewould like to find a wife...

Családregény, mely tizenkét nemzedékről szól, főképpen azoknak az elsőszülötteiről.Háromszáz évnyi utazás a magyar térben és időben.When in 1705 Kornell Csillag's grandfather returns destitute to his native Hungary from exile, he happensacross a gold fob-watch gleaming in the mud. The shipwrecked fortunes of the Csillag family suddenly take a new and marvelous turn. The golden watch brings an unexpected gift to the future generations of firstborn sons: clairvoyance. Passed down fromfather to son, this gift offers the ability to look into the future or back into history-for some it is considered a blessing, for others a curse. No matter the outcome, each generation records its astonishing, vivid, and revelatory visions into abattered journal that becomes known as The Book of Fathers. For three hundred years the Csillag family line meanders unbroken across Hungary's rivers and vineyards, through a land overrun by wolves and bandits, scarred by plague and massacre, andbrutalized by despots. Impetuous, tenderhearted, and shrewd, the Csillags give birth to scholars and gamblers, artists and entrepreneurs. Led astray by unruly passions, they marry frigid French noblewomen and thieving alehouse whores. They change theirname and their religion, and change them back. They wander from home but always return, and through it all The Book of Fathers bears witness to holocaust and wedding feast alike.

A profoundly moving novel with the unforgettable power of Szabo's award-winning The Door.When Ettie's husband dies, her daughter Iza insists that her mother give up the family house in thecountryside and move to Budapest. Displaced from her community and her home, Ettie tries to find her place in this new life, but can't seem to get it right. She irritates the maid, hangs food outside the window because she mistrusts the fridge and, inher naivety and loneliness, invites a prostitute in for tea.Iza's Ballad is the story of a woman who loses her life's companion and a mother trying to get close to a daughter whom she has never truly known. It is about the meeting of the old-fashioned and the modern worlds and the beliefs we construct over alifetime.

A magnificent and ambitiously conceived portrait of contemporary life, by a genius of realism.Nine men. Each of them at a different stage in life, each of them away from home, and each of themstriving--in the suburbs of Prague, in an overdeveloped Alpine village, beside a Belgian motorway, in a dingy Cyprus hotel--to understand what it means to be alive, here and now. Tracing a dramatic arc from the spring of youth to the winter of old age,the ostensibly separate narratives of All That Man Is aggregate into a picture of a single shared existence, a picture that interrogates the state of modern manhood while bringing to life, unforgettably, the physical and emotional terrain of anincreasingly globalized Europe. And so these nine lives form an ingenious and new kind of novel, in which David Szalay expertly plots a dark predicament for the twenty-first-century man.David SzalayHe was born in Canada, moved to the UK the following year and has lived there ever since. He studied at Oxford University and has written a number of radio dramas for the BBC.

Ferenc Molnár (1878-1952) is perhaps best known in the world for his brilliant drawing room comedies such as The Swan and The Guardsman. But in Hungary it was his novel for young people, The Paul Street Boys (1907), which insured his lasting popularity.Translated into English in 1927 and here updated, the novel about two gangs of boys fighting a war for a piece of land, a derelict building site which to them is a cherished symbol of freedom, is still the same fascinating story it was nearly a centuryago.

Ein nahezu verlassenes Dorf, nur wenige Menschen sind geblieben. Armut und Perspektivlosigkeit liegen schwer über den Einwohnern. Die Gemeinschaft ist zersetzt von Hass und Misstrauen. Irimias, ein früherer Dorfbewohner, kehrt zurück und verspricht Geldund Hoffnung. Das Dorf lässt sich auf ihn ein, nichtsahnend, dass er ein Polizeispitzel ist, der die Menschen durch die Androhung der Gefängnisstrafe erpresst. Krasznahorkai erzählt atmosphärisch dicht von verrotteten Charakteren in einem verfehltenStaat. Sein 'Satanstango' ist überwältigend.Ein Fremder, ein verrottendes Dorf, ein übermächtiges System - László Krasznahorkai, ein Meister der Apokalypse.

Wahrscheinlich ertrage ich all das, was ich täglich sehen, hören und leiden muss, nur deshalb, weil ich gar nicht richtig glauben kann, was hier vor sich geht. Ich glaube es nicht, weil Menschen solche Dinge doch eigentlich nicht fertigbringen.RAm Morgendes 20. Oktober 1944 muss der sechzigjährige Erno Szép den Marsch in ein Arbeitslager nahe Budapest antreten. Seine Beobachtungen und Erlebnisse in den folgenden 19 Tagen hält er in dem vordergründig leichten, eleganten und damit umso verstörenderen Tondes Feuilletonisten fest. Ungläubigkeit spricht aus seinen Zeilen, mit ironischer Distanz versucht er den alltäglichen Demütigungen zu begegnen, um seine menschliche Würde zu bewahren. Mit einem Nachwort von Prof. Paul Lendvai und Anmerkungen von ErnöZeltner.

A teenage girl's difficult journey towards adulthood in a time of war.A school story for grownups that is also about our inability or refusal to protect children from history SARAH MOSSOf all Szabo's novels, Abigail deserves the widest readership. It's an adventure story, brilliantly written TIBOR FISCHEROf all her novels, Magda Szabo's Abigail is indeed the most widely read in her native Hungary. Now, fifty years after it was written, it appears for the first time in English, joining Katalin Street and The Door in a loose trilogy about the impact of waron those who have to live with the consequences.It is late 1943 and Hitler, exasperated by the slowness of his Hungarian ally to act on the Jewish question and alarmed by the weakness on his southern flank, is preparing to occupy the country. Foreseeing this, and concerned for his daughter's safety,a Budapest father decides to send her to a boarding school away from the capital.A lively, sophisticated, somewhat spoiled teenager, she is not impressed by the reasons she is given, and when the school turns out to be a fiercely Puritanical one in a provincial city a long way from home, she rebels outright. Her superior attitudeoffends her new classmates and things quickly turn sour.It is the start of a long and bitter learning curve that will open her eyes to her arrogant blindness to other people's true motives and feelings. Exposed for the first time to the realities of life for those less privileged than herself, andincreasingly confronted by evidence of the more sinister purposes of the war, she learns lessons about the nature of loyalty, courage, sacrifice and love.Translated from the Hungarian by Len Rix

Am Montag bin ich Postbeamter, am Dienstag bin ich Polizist, am Mittwoch bin ich Krankführer, am Donnerstag bin ich Kinderarzt, am Freitag bin ich im Ruhestand.Aber am Sonnabend muss ich nicht mehr allein spielen, am Sonnabend haben sie alle Zeit, mit mir zu spielen, Mutti und Vati und Opa und meine Tante Helga. Am Sonntag aber ist am schönsten, dass Sonntag ist. Wenn wir spazieren gehen oder einen Ausflugmachen, kann ich fragen, was sie alle arbeiten: der Feuerwehrmann, der Lokomotivführer, die Blumenverkäuferin, der Soldat, der Schiffer, der Tischler, der Bäcker, der Schäfer. Und Mutti und Vati und Oma und Opa und meine Tante Helga antworten mir aufjede Frage.Jetzt weiá ich wirklich, was die Erwachsenen zu tun haben.Weiát du es auch?

'While the average reader cannot pretend truly to understand the reality of those who suffered in concentration camps, Kertesz draws us one step closer' ObserverGyuri, a fourteen-year-old Hungarian Jew, gets the day off school to witness his father signing over the family timber business - his final act before being sent to a labour camp. Two months later, Gyuri finds himself assigned to a 'permanent workplace'.This is the start of his journey to Auschwitz.On his arrival Gyuri finds that he is unable to identify with other Jews, and is rejected by them. An outsider among his own people, his estrangement makes him a preternaturally acute observer, dogmatically insisting on making sense of the barbarity -and beauty - he witnesses.

'A fine and powerful piece of work Dark, at times cryptic, and hugely energetic' Irish TimesNo! is the first word of this haunting novel. It is how a middle-aged Hungarian-Jewish writer answers an acquaintance who asks him if he has a child, and it is how he answered his wife years earlier when she told him that she wanted one. The loss,longing and regret that haunt the years between these two 'No!'s give rise to one of the most eloquent meditations ever written on the Holocaust. As Kertész's narrator addresses the child he couldn't bear to bring into the world, he takes readers on amesmerising, lyrical journey through his life, from his childhood to Auschwitz to his failed marriage.

Wenn bei uns gestrichen wird, dann läuft auch Papa barfuá herum, und Mama kriecht wie ich auf allen Vieren, und wenn ich zufällig den Wassereimer...

A literary sensation in Hungary, György Spiró's CAPTIVITY is both a highly sophisticated historical novel and a gripping page-turner. Set in the tumultuous first century A.D., between the year of Christ's death and the outbreak of the Jewish War,CAPTIVITY recounts the adventures of the feeble-bodied, bookish Uri, a young Roman Jew.Frustrated with his hapless son, Uri's father sends the young man to the Holy Land to regain the family's prestige. In Jerusalem, Uri is imprisoned by Herod and meets two thieves and (perhaps) Jesus before their crucifixion. Later, in cosmopolitanAlexandria, he undergoes a scholarly and sexual awakening - but must also escape a pogrom. Returning to Rome at last, he finds an entirely unexpected inheritance.