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| Author: | Title: | Description: |
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| Bánffy, M. | They were counted | This novel paints an unrivalled portrait of the vanished world of pre-1914 Hungary, as seen through the eyes of two young Transylvanian cousins; parties in great country houses, turbulent scenes in parliament and the luxury of life in Budapest. |
| Hungarian: Literature: Translations into English Price: £9.99 | ||
| Bánffy, M. | They were found wanting | This novel takes up the tale of the two Transylvanian cousins, their loves and very different fortunes. The tale picks up a year after its prequel, "They were counted". |
| Hungarian: Literature: Translations into English Price: £12.99 | ||
| Dalos, G. | The Circumcision | A self-proclaimed "Hungarian Communist Jew for Christ', twelve-year-old Robi Singer has a lot on his plate. He is a "half-orphan', he is painfully overweight and what's more, he has yet to be circumcised. With his Bar Mitzvah fast approaching, the pressure is on. To make matters worse, Robi's not sure he wants to be Jewish at all… |
| Hungarian: Literature: Translations into English Price: £8.99 | ||
| Dragoman, G. | The White king | 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 is finally sent home again. In the mean time, Djata lives out a life of adventure. He plays wargames in flaming wheat fields; hunts for gold in abandoned claymines; watches porn in a backroom at the cinema, and plays chess with an automaton. But lurking beneath his rebel boyhood, pulling at his heartstrings, is the continued absence of his father. When he finally uncovers the real truth, he risks losing his childhood for ever. |
| Hungarian: Literature: Translations into English Price: £14.99 | ||
| Esterhazy, P. | Celestial harmonies | A biographical novel in the grand European literary tradition that spans multiple generations and three centuries of tumultuous Central European history, as witnessed by the Esterhazys, a leading Hungarian family. |
| Hungarian: Literature: Translations into English Price: £9.99 | ||
| Karinthy, F. | Metropole | On his way to a linguists' conference in Helsinki, Budai finds himself in a strange city where he can't understand a word. One claustrophobic day blurs into another as he desperately struggles to survive in this vastly overpopulated metropolis where there are as many languages as there are people… |
| Hungarian: Literature: Translations into English Price: £8.99 | ||
| Kertesz, I. | Detective story | Now in prison, Antonio Martens is a torturer for the secret poice of a recently defunct dictatorship. He requests and is given writing materials in his cell and recounts the tragedies he caused or fuelled… |
| Hungarian: Literature: Translations into English Price: £12.99 | ||
| Kertesz, I. | Kaddish for an unborn child | Semi-autobiographical novel about survival drawn on the author's experiences in Auschwitz and Buchenwald written by a world-renowned Nobel Prize winner. |
| Hungarian: Literature: Translations into English Price: £10.95 | ||
| Kertész, I. | Liquidation | Ten years have passed since the fall of Communism. B., a writer of great repute - who survived Auschwitz - has taken his own life. His friend Kingbitter discovers among his papers a play entitled Liquidation, in which he reads an eerie foretelling of the personal and political crises that he and B.'s other friends now face… |
| Hungarian: Literature: Translations into English Price: £12.99 | ||
| Kosztolányi, D. | Skylark | A portrait of provincial life in the Austro-Hungarian monarchy at the turn of the century, this book focuses on one extraordinary week in the otherwise uneventful lives of and elderly Hungarian couple. |
| Hungarian: Literature: Translations into English Price: £9.99 | ||
| Krúdy, G. | The Adventures of Sindbad | Sindbad, a voyager in the realms of memory and imagination, travels through the centuries in pursuit of an ideal love directed as much at the essence of femininity as at his individual lovers. |
| Hungarian: Literature: Translations into English Price: £9.99 | ||
| Krúdy, G. | Ladies day | An undertaker Janos Czifra finds himself at a wedding and then in a brothel where, via an encounter with his shadow self Dream, he witnesses a series of bizarre and sordid sceans. |
| Hungarian: Literature: Translations into English Price: £14.95 | ||
| Krudy, G. | Sunflower | Young Eveline leaves the city and returns to her country estate to escape the memory of her desperate love for the unscrupulous charmer Kálmán. There she encounters the melancholy Álmos-Dreamer, who is languishing for love of her, and is visited by the bizarre and beautiful Miss Maszkerádi, a woman who is a force of nature. |
| Hungarian: Literature: Translations into English Price: £8.99 | ||
| Márai, S. | Embers | Moving novel about two men and a beautiful woman and an unspoken act of betrayal that hangs over them for decades. |
| Hungarian: Literature: Translations into English Price: £7.99 | ||
| Mikszáth, K. | The Town in black | This novel lays before the reader a world of the beginning of 20th century, a world split into the village gentry and the town bourgeoisie, the former pssessing rank but lacking money, the latter in possession of money, but lacking rank. A heady mix of unforgettable characters, social criticism and politics intricately interwoven with a love story. |
| Hungarian: Literature: Translations into English Price: £19.95 | ||
| Orczy, Baroness E. | Old Hungarian fairy tales | A collection of traditional fairytales. |
| Hungarian: Literature: Translations into English Price: £10.95 | ||
| Szabó, M. | The Door | Brilliant story about the developing relationship between a young writer, struggling for success and recognition, and an elderly housekeeper that keeps her previous life a secret until her mistress" husband falls seriously ill… |
| Hungarian: Literature: Translations into English Price: £15.99 | ||
| Szabó, M. | The Gift of the wondrous fig tree | Queen Iris is delighted when the all-knowing wondrous fig tree in Fairyland presents her Lala on her coronation day. But Lala is no ordinary fairy child. He shows very little interst in the spells he learns in fairy school and prefers the company of humans, befriending a recently orphaned girl Beata and her uncle… |
| Hungarian: Literature: Translations into English Price: £18.95 | ||
| Szerb, A. | Journey by moonlight | Anxious to please his bourgeois father, Mihály joins the family firm in Budapest. Pursued by nostalgia for his bohemian youth, he seeks escape in marriage to Erzsi, unaware that she has chosen him in her own act of rebellion. On their honeymoon in Italy, Mihály "loses" his bride at a provincial station and embarks on a chaotic and bizarre journey that leads him to Rome. There, all the haunted and erotic elements of his past converge, and both he and Erzsi must make their final choice… |
| Hungarian: Literature: Translations into English Price: £7.99 | ||
| Vamos, M. | Book of fathers | A superb family saga that draws the reader effortlessly through nearly three centuries of turbulent history … |
| Hungarian: Literature: Translations into English Price: £7.99 | ||
| Various | Leopard V: an island of sound | Published to coincide with the Hungarian Year of Culture in 2003/2004, this anthology comprises a selection of Hungarian prose and poetry from the second half of the 20th century. |
| Hungarian: Literature: Translations into English Price: £14.99 | ||
