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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

A story of the relationship between two women, one encouraging the other to emerge from her inner isolation.Poignatntly sad but resolutely uplifting.

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

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...

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

What joy and pride is associated with one's first school satchel! This happy fact is proof that its wearer is now a schoolchild.Danny proudly, happily wends his way to school, where his enthusiasm wanes somewhat but his curiosity grows. To the questionput by grown-ups, Is school a good thing? - Danny cannot provide an answer. Sometimes it's good, sometimes bad. His little friend Kitty, who has had to stay another year in nursery school, is curious to know what good school is at all, together withthe ability to write, read and count. She decides that she will stay at nursery school because she wants to become a nursery-school teacher, and they teach that in nursery school anyway. Don't they? We recommend Éva Janikovszky's playfully written, jollylittle book, with its enchantingly colourful illustrations by László Réber, to lower-year schoolchildren and to their parents alike. Translated by Andrew C. Rouse

In Seiobo There Below we see the Japanese goddess Seiobo returning to mortal realms in search of perfection. An ancient Buddha being restored

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

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

Krúdy Gyula A kékszalag hőse című regényének első angol nyelvű fordítása. Fordította: John Bátki

In the darkening embers of a Communist utopia, life in a desolate Hungarian town has come to a virtual standstill. Flies buzz, spiders weave, water drips and animals root desultorily in the barnyard of a collective farm. But when the charismatic Irimias- long-thought dead - returns to the commune, the villagers fall under his spell. The Devil has arrived in their midst.Irimias will divide and rule: his arrival heralds the beginning of a period of violence and greed for the villagers as he sets about swindling them out of a fortune that might allow them to escape the emptiness and futility of their existence. He soonattains a messianic aura as he plays on the fears of the townsfolk and a series of increasingly brutal events unfold.

Karinthy leghíresebb és sajátosan érdekes könyve a 49 éves korában felfedezett betegségéről és a műtét élményéről angol nyelven.

The hallucinatory, unforgettable account of a moment - or an eternity - in an uncertain love affairThe man has actually come to tell his lover that he wants to leave her, but as soon as he walks in he realizes he won't be able to tell her. The woman rolls a joint. They smoke it. And as they drift into another state of mind, he approaches the borderzones between being and nonbeing, between living and imagining, or is it between life and death?From the acclaimed author of A Book of Memories we now have this unsettling and strangely beautiful exploration of the impossibility of love. The mysterious musicality and physical intensity of the narration will be familiar to readers of Nadas's otherfiction, but Love is a radical new departure.

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.

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.

The passing of the Hungarian prime minister before he could realize his dream of a fascist state has little effect on crime reporter Zsigmond Gordon. Life--and death--go on in the bustling old city, and a late-night tip soon leads him to a crime scenewhere a young woman lies dead, a Jewish prayer book in her purse. Disturbed by the bizarre circumstances--the corpse of a beautiful, well-groomed, religious victim abandoned in one of Budapest's seedier neighborhoods--Gordon is determined to unravel themystery of her demise, especially after her shocking identity is revealed. The investigation will lead him deep into the city's dark underbelly--a shadow world of pornographers, crime syndicates, and Communist cells--and to the highest echelons of power,where one of Hungary's most influential executives plans to make an economic killing through his strong political ties to Germany's leaders...if he can somehow keep secret the fact that he was, at one time, Jewish.A gripping and evocative thriller, brimming with suspense and breathtaking political intrigue, Vilmos Kondor's Budapest Noir is a richly atmospheric tale of murder and betrayal from a remarkable new voice in noir detective fiction.

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.

Dans le jardin, la lavande, ‡a pousse comme de l'herbe. Son parfum emplit toute la maisonnette ou vivent tata Barbara, tonton Balthazar et les teckels jumeaux. Ici tout fleure bon la lavande, surtout les teckels qui jouent a cache-cache et gambadent dansles champs de lavande.

Der erfolgreiche Roman des wiederentdeckten grossen ungarischen Schriftstellers Mit feiner Ironie erzählt Antal Szerb in diesem wahrhaft europäischen Roman die Geschichte einer jungen Ehe. Er beleuchtet den Weg des frischvermählten Paars Erzsi und Mihálywie der helle Mond eine venezianische Gasse. Bereits auf der Hochzeitsreise in Italien wird Mihály durch die unerwartete Begegnung mit einem alten Freund von melancholischen Erinnerungen an seine rebellische Jugend Aberwältigt, und erste Phantasien Aberdas Ende ihrer Beziehung beschleichen ihn. Als er seine Frau auf der Weiterreise an einem kleinen Bahnhof aus Versehen verliert, begreift Mihály dies als ein Zeichen, und eine ganz andere Reise beginnt, eine Schattenreise zum Selbst.