The first novel in more than a decade by Hungary's most distinguished writer. "I am writing my most hazardous book", says George Konrad. "I have been sentenced to examine myself". The result is a rich, poetic story of a man, a family, and a country--a vital and sensuous story from the president of International PEN.
An architect in an unnamed city considers his life, his work, and the many-layered history of the city he and his family--architects all--have contributed to building. In the days after World War II--during which American bombers destroyed much of what his father built--he becomes a Stalinist planner and realizes that the power of the nobility, ...
Written over the last two decades, the essays in this collection speak to what it means to be Jewish-historically, theologically, ideologically, philosophically-within the context of the Holocaust and the disintegration of Communism. George Konrad, a Diaspora Jew, espouses Zionism, he tells us, as one who might, if he chooses, move to Jerusalem, ...
Winner of the 2007 National Jewish Book Award in the category of Biography, Autobiography & Memoir A powerful memoir of war, politics, literature, and family life by one of Europe's leading intellectuals. When George Konrad was a child of eleven, he, his sister, and two cousins managed to flee to Budapest from the Hungarian countryside the day ...
On 23 October, 1956, what began as a mass rally in Bem Square, Budapest, quickly evolved into the Hungarian Revolution. It lasted until 4 November, when the Soviet tanks rolled in. Up to 50,000 Hungarians and 7,000 Soviets were killed, and thousands were injured. Erich Lessing, who found himself in the thick of the action, documented the cruelly ...
Buzzer Louis, Texas hill country tuxedo cat and retired Director of Operations (D/O) of Cats In Action (C.I.A.), is summoned to Italy by C?sare Pepperoni Giaccomazza, his cousin who's head of the Rome office of Interpol to track down that evil international catnabbing and giant spotted owl Fred-X. You see, ol? Fred-X has resumed his nasty habit of ...
The daily routine of a man in charge of children at a state welfare organizat and the demands that are made upon him are depicted in this novel set in present day Hungary.
The year 1993. Janos Dragoman, a wandering scholar, a world-famous and world-weary Hungarian writer, returns to his native town to visit three old friends. They are Aba Kuno, the almost saintly, highly respected rector of the university; Antal Tombor, the charismatic popular showman-mayor; and Kobra, a stable family man who is also a ubiquitous ...
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