Most Read This Week In Hungary

Books that are set in Hungary.

Most Read This Week Tagged "Hungary"

Flesh
The Blood Countess: Murder, Betrayal, and the Making of a Monster
Lázár
Paradise Garden
Herscht 07769
The Orphans on the Train
The Nursery
Breaking Through: My Life in Science
The Last Days of Budapest: The Destruction of Europe’s Most Cosmopolitan Capital in World War II
Zsömle odavan
The Angel Makers: Arsenic, a Midwife, and Modern History’s Most Astonishing Murder Ring
When the Summer Was Ours
Intrigue in Istanbul (A Jane Wunderly Mystery #4)
The Nightingale's Castle
The Black Maybe: Liminal Tales
Il pane perduto
Porcupines
Outlandish: Walking Europe’s Unlikely Landscapes
Seeing Further
This Rebel Heart
Budapest: Between East and West
Węgry na nowo. Jak Viktor Orbán zaprogramował narodową tożsamość
Rémtörténetek
Fóbia
The Women Are Not Fine: The Dark History of a Poisonous Sisterhood
The Puppet Maker's Daughter

Simon Winder
The Uskoks – like reformed alcoholics brought face to face with row upon row of brightly coloured liqueur miniatures – were simply unable to avoid helping themselves to passing Venetian Christian ships.
Simon Winder, Danubia: A Personal History of Habsburg Europe

Walter Perrie
The paprika was in fact brought to Europe by the Spaniards, probably from Southern Mexico or Peru. The first shipment was apparently sent by a colleague of Columbus in 1494. It seems to have arrived in Hungary sometime in the sixteenth century, brought by people fleeing from the Turks, for the plant had found its way from Spain to the Balkans and was known in Hungary as 'heathen' or 'Turkish' pepper. Since then it has become the characteristic spice of Hungarian cuisine. ...more
Walter Perrie, Roads That Move: A Journey through Eastern Europe

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