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30 popular hungarian books
Travel the world without leaving your chair. The target of the Read Around The World Challenge is to read at least one book written by an author from each and every country in the world. All books that are listed here as part of the "Read Around Europe Challenge" were written by authors from Hungary. Find a great book for the next part of your reading journey around the world from this book list. The following popular books have been recommended so far.

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Fatelessness : A Novel by Imre Kertész EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
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At the age of 14 Georg Koves is plucked from his home in a Jewish section of Budapest and without any particular malice, placed on a train to Auschwitz. He does not understand the reason for his fate. He doesn’t particularly think of himself as Jewish. And his fellow prisoners, who decry his lack of Yiddish, keep telling him, “You are no Jew.” In the lowest circle of the Holocaust, Georg remains an outsider. The genius of Imre Kertesz’s unblinking novel lies in its refusal to mitigate the strangeness of its events, not least of which is Georg’s dogmatic insistence on making sense of what he wi... continue
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George Frideric Handel by Paul Henry Lang EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
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Description:
Exceptionally full, detailed study of the man, his music and times. Childhood, music training, years in London; analysis of Messiah and other works; much more. Introduction. Includes 35 illustrations.

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I går by Ágota Kristóf NO

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
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Iza's Ballad by Magda Szabo EN

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From the author of The Door, selected by The New York Times Book Review as one of the ten best books of 2015 An NYRB Classics Original Like Magda Szabó’s internationally acclaimed novel The Door, Iza’s Ballad is a striking story of the relationship between two women, in this case a mother and a daughter. Ettie, the mother, is old and from an older world than the rapidly modernizing Communist Hungary of the years after World War II. From a poor family and without formal education, Ettie has devoted her life to the cause of her husband, Vince, a courageous magistrate who had been blacklisted for... continue

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Katalin Street

Katalin Street by Magda Szabó EN

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From the award-winning author of The Door comes Katalin Street, first published in Hungarian in 1968 and translated into French, German, and Swedish. This elegant English translation by Agnes Farkas Smith now makes Katalin Street available to an even wider audience.

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La Calma by Attila Bartis ES

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
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Description:
En una sórdida Budapest, en las postrimerías de la época comunista, un joven escritor se ve inmerso en la brutalidad de la dominación y el encierro a que le somete su madre, una actriz otrora célebre quebrada hoy por la soledad y la locura. Novela brutal, en la que los gestos y las palabras toman dimensiones paroxísticas y en el que la violencia parece ser un camino de purificación, se nos muestra como una confesión de seres solitarios y perversos, a medio camino entre la locura más desenfrenada y la tendencia a la normalidad. Brutal y sin concesiones, “La calma” ha sido considerada por muchos... continue

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Los desposeídos by Szilárd Borbély ES

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
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Description:
Los Desposeídos es un profundo ejercicio de comprensión del escenario de la infancia del autor: la Hungría de mediados del siglo XX, un país traumatizado por la Segunda Guerra Mundial, el regreso de los supervivientes de los gulags y la expropiación de las tierras por los comunistas. A finales de los años sesenta, una fam ilia lucha por sobrevivir a la miseria en un pequeño pueblo fronterizo de Hungría. El hijo de once años se evade del frío y el hambre imaginando un universo propio en el que gobiernan los números primos mientras observa con todo detalle el mundo que le rodea. Se trata de un m... continue

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Metropole by Ferenc Karinthy EN

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A haunting Hungarian novel, and a vision of hell unlike any previously imagined.


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Oorlog en oorlog by László Krasznahorkai NL

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De wat wereldvreemde Gyorgy Korin werkt bij een archief in een Hongaars provinciestadje. Op een dag vindt hij daar een merkwaardig manuscript. Het is onduidelijk wie het geschreven heeft en wanneer. Het vertelt het verhaal van vier mannen, die in de verschillende hoofdstukken, zonder chronologie of logica, in steeds andere periodes van de wereldgeschiedenis opduiken – van de Bronstijd op Minoïsch Kreta tot de Romeinse provincie Britannia, in Gibraltar ten tijde van Columbus – voortdurend op de vlucht voor oorlog en verwoesting. Korin raakt gefascineerd door de teksten en be... continue


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