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Author: Geza Gardonyi Publisher: Peter Nanasi ISBN: 1453886419 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 168
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Love and Loss: Tales from Hungary is an English translation of the following six stories written by Geza Gardonyi: Where are you, Eve? (Original title: Hol vagy, Eva?) When lord of the castle, Akos, forbids his stepdaughter's childhood playmate, Kelen, to court his daughter, Kelen is forced to leave town and believes she married another man, but instead of getting married she becomes a nun. Will Kelen see her again? The Three Owls (Original title: Harom bagoly) When young attorney, Kalman, gets engaged to a beautiful woman, he wants nothing more than to marry her; but he finds out that he has three orphaned nephews, and his willingness to adopt them might end his engagement. Seeing Ethel (Original title: Leanynezoben) When blind cellist, Steve, moves home to play in a Gypsy band, he falls in love with the cobbler's daughter, Ethel, whose boyfriend was killed in a war against the Russians. Forget Me Not (Original title: Csak ne felejts!) When Imrus Kovacs travels to Switzerland, he finds out that he cannot become a university student because he does not speak French well. He ends up getting a job at a wallpaper factory where he falls in love with his coworker, Georgette, who is also his boss' daughter. He plans to marry her, but when his parents find out about his relationship, they trick him into coming home. Will he return for her? Blind Mishka: A student's diary (Original title: Vilagtalan Miska: Egy tanulo naploja) Thirteen -year -old Erno describes his life in his diary. Confession (Original title: Vallomas) When talented painter, Sylvester, falls in love with Ilka, who is on vacation at Lake Balaton, he has to overcome the competition from a pharmacy assistant, Forgacs, who tries to do everything possible to win her affection. The above stories were translated by Peter Nanasi in 2010.
Author: Geza Gardonyi Publisher: Peter Nanasi ISBN: 1453886419 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 168
Book Description
Love and Loss: Tales from Hungary is an English translation of the following six stories written by Geza Gardonyi: Where are you, Eve? (Original title: Hol vagy, Eva?) When lord of the castle, Akos, forbids his stepdaughter's childhood playmate, Kelen, to court his daughter, Kelen is forced to leave town and believes she married another man, but instead of getting married she becomes a nun. Will Kelen see her again? The Three Owls (Original title: Harom bagoly) When young attorney, Kalman, gets engaged to a beautiful woman, he wants nothing more than to marry her; but he finds out that he has three orphaned nephews, and his willingness to adopt them might end his engagement. Seeing Ethel (Original title: Leanynezoben) When blind cellist, Steve, moves home to play in a Gypsy band, he falls in love with the cobbler's daughter, Ethel, whose boyfriend was killed in a war against the Russians. Forget Me Not (Original title: Csak ne felejts!) When Imrus Kovacs travels to Switzerland, he finds out that he cannot become a university student because he does not speak French well. He ends up getting a job at a wallpaper factory where he falls in love with his coworker, Georgette, who is also his boss' daughter. He plans to marry her, but when his parents find out about his relationship, they trick him into coming home. Will he return for her? Blind Mishka: A student's diary (Original title: Vilagtalan Miska: Egy tanulo naploja) Thirteen -year -old Erno describes his life in his diary. Confession (Original title: Vallomas) When talented painter, Sylvester, falls in love with Ilka, who is on vacation at Lake Balaton, he has to overcome the competition from a pharmacy assistant, Forgacs, who tries to do everything possible to win her affection. The above stories were translated by Peter Nanasi in 2010.
Author: Ayelet Waldman Publisher: Anchor ISBN: 0385533551 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 398
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A spellbinding new novel of contraband masterpieces, tragic love, and the unexpected legacies of forgotten crimes, Ayelet Waldman’s Love and Treasure weaves a tale around the fascinating, true history of the Hungarian Gold Train in the Second World War. In 1945 on the outskirts of Salzburg, victorious American soldiers capture a train filled with unspeakable riches: piles of fine gold watches; mountains of fur coats; crates filled with wedding rings, silver picture frames, family heirlooms, and Shabbat candlesticks passed down through generations. Jack Wiseman, a tough, smart New York Jew, is the lieutenant charged with guarding this treasure—a responsibility that grows more complicated when he meets Ilona, a fierce, beautiful Hungarian who has lost everything in the ravages of the Holocaust. Seventy years later, amid the shadowy world of art dealers who profit off the sins of previous generations, Jack gives a necklace to his granddaughter, Natalie Stein, and charges her with searching for an unknown woman—a woman whose portrait and fate come to haunt Natalie, a woman whose secret may help Natalie to understand the guilt her grandfather will take to his grave and to find a way out of the mess she has made of her own life. A story of brilliantly drawn characters—a suave and shady art historian, a delusive and infatuated Freudian, a family of singing circus dwarfs fallen into the clutches of Josef Mengele, and desperate lovers facing choices that will tear them apart—Love and Treasure is Ayelet Waldman’s finest novel to date: a sad, funny, richly detailed work that poses hard questions about the value of precious things in a time when life itself has no value, and about the slenderest of chains that can bind us to the griefs and passions of the past. This eBook edition includes a Reading Group Guide.
Author: Marianne Szegedy-Maszak Publisher: Random House ISBN: 0679645225 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 402
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A magnificent wartime love story about the forces that brought the author’s parents together and those that nearly drove them apart Marianne Szegedy-Maszák’s parents, Hanna and Aladár, met and fell in love in Budapest in 1940. He was a rising star in the foreign ministry—a vocal anti-Fascist who was in talks with the Allies when he was arrested and sent to Dachau. She was the granddaughter of Manfred Weiss, the industrialist patriarch of an aristocratic Jewish family that owned factories, were patrons of intellectuals and artists, and entertained dignitaries at their baronial estates. Though many in the family had converted to Catholicism decades earlier, when the Germans invaded Hungary in March 1944, they were forced into hiding. In a secret and controversial deal brokered with Heinrich Himmler, the family turned over their vast holdings in exchange for their safe passage to Portugal. Aladár survived Dachau, a fragile and anxious version of himself. After nearly two years without contact, he located Hanna and wrote her a letter that warned that he was not the man she’d last seen, but he was still in love with her. After months of waiting for visas and transit, she finally arrived in a devastated Budapest in December 1945, where at last they were wed. Framed by a cache of letters written between 1940 and 1947, Szegedy-Maszák’s family memoir tells the story, at once intimate and epic, of the complicated relationship Hungary had with its Jewish population—the moments of glorious humanism that stood apart from its history of anti-Semitism—and with the rest of the world. She resurrects in riveting detail a lost world of splendor and carefully limns the moral struggles that history exacted—from a country and its individuals. Praise for I Kiss Your Hands Many Times “I Kiss Your Hand Many Times is the sweeping story of Marianne Szegedy-Maszák’s family in pre– and post–World War II Europe, capturing the many ways the struggles of that period shaped her family for years to come. But most of all it is a beautiful love story, charting her parents’ devotion in one of history’s darkest hours.”—Arianna Huffington, president and editor-in-chief, the Huffington Post Media Group “In this panoramic and gripping narrative of a vanished world of great wealth and power, Marianne Szegedy-Maszák restores an important missing chapter of European, Hungarian, and Holocaust history.”—Kati Marton, author of Paris: A Love Story and Enemies of the People: My Family’s Journey to America “How many times can a heart be broken? Hungarians know, Marianne Szegedy-Maszák’s family more than most. History has broken theirs again and again. This is the story of that violence, told by the daughter of an extraordinary man and extraordinary woman who refused to surrender to it. Every perfectly chosen word is as it happened. So brace yourself. Truth can break hearts, too.”—Robert Sam Anson, author of War News: A Young Reporter in Indochina “This family memoir is everything you could wish for in the genre: the story of a fascinating family that illuminates the historical time it lived through. . . . Informative and fascinating in every way, [I Kiss Your Hands Many Times] is a great introduction to World War II Hungary and a moving tale of personal relationships in a time of great duress.”—Booklist (starred review)
Author: Géza Gárdonyi Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1794777334 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 476
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Egri Csillagok ("Eger Stars") by Géza Gárdonyi, one of the most recognized and widely read books in Hungarian literature, was first published in 1899. The historical novel is set in a Hungary defeated by the Ottoman Turks at Mohács in 1526 and torn apart by rival kings, the Hungarian King John Zápolya with his base in Transylvania and the Austrian Hapsburg Ferdinand. The novel reaches its climax with the successful Hungarian defense of Eger Castle in 1552 by some 2,000 defenders against an Ottoman army numbering over 40,000.
Author: Eleanor Perenyi Publisher: New York Review of Books ISBN: 1590179501 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 313
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Set in a Hungarian estate on the edge of the Carpathian Mountains, this “lucid and crisp” memoir is a clear-eyed elegy to a country—and a marriage—torn apart by World War II (The New Yorker) Best known for her classic book Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden, Eleanor Perényi led a worldly life before settling down in Connecticut. More Was Lost is a memoir of her youth abroad, written in the early days of World War II, after her return to the United States. In 1937, at the age of nineteen, Perényi falls in love with a poor Hungarian baron and in short order acquires both a title and a struggling country estate at the edge of the Carpathians. She throws herself into this life with zeal, learning Hungarian and observing the invisible order of the Czech rule, the resentment of the native Ruthenians, and the haughtiness of the dispossessed Hungarians. In the midst of massive political upheaval, Perényi and her husband remain steadfast in their dedication to their new life, an alliance that will soon be tested by the war. With old-fashioned frankness and wit, Perényi recounts this poignant tale of how much was gained and how much more was lost.
Author: Charles Farkas Publisher: State University of New York Press ISBN: 1438447590 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 496
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Germany's invasion of Hungary in 1944 marked the end of a culture that had dominated Central Europe from the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth. In this poignant memoir, Charles Farkas offers a testament to this vanished way of life—its society, morality, personal integrity, wealth, traditions, and chivalry—as well as an eyewitness account of its destruction, begun at the hands of the Nazis and then completed under the heel of Soviet Communism. Farkas's recollections of growing up in Budapest, a city whose grandeur embraced—indeed spanned—the Danube River; his vivid descriptions of everyday life in Hungary before, during, and after World War II; and his ultimate flight to freedom in the United States remind us that behind the larger historical events of the past century are the stories of the individual men and women who endured and, ultimately, survived them.
Author: Lord Byron Publisher: Good Press ISBN: Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 4417
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Lord Byron's 'LORD BYRON Ultimate Collection: 300+ Poems, Verses, Dramas & Tales' is a comprehensive compilation of the renowned poet's works, showcasing his distinctive literary style that combines romanticism with wit and darkness. Byron's poems often delve into themes of love, loss, and the human experience, capturing the essence of the Romantic era with his emotive and passionate language. This collection includes a diverse range of works, from epic poems like 'Don Juan' to haunting verses like 'She Walks in Beauty,' showcasing Byron's versatility as a writer. Readers will be captivated by the lyrical beauty and melodious rhythm of Byron's verses, making this collection a must-read for lovers of poetry and literature alike. Lord Byron's tumultuous personal life and rebellious nature greatly influenced his writings, as he sought to challenge societal norms and explore the complexities of human emotions. His experiences as an exile and his travels across Europe provided him with a unique perspective that is reflected in his works, adding depth and richness to his poetic voice. This comprehensive collection serves as a testament to Byron's enduring legacy as one of the greatest poets of the Romantic period, showcasing the depth of his literary genius and the timeless relevance of his works. I highly recommend 'LORD BYRON Ultimate Collection' to anyone interested in exploring the depths of human emotion and the beauty of poetic language. Byron's masterful storytelling and evocative imagery will enchant readers and transport them to a world of passion and lyricism, making this collection a true literary treasure.
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