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message 2: by Anna (last edited May 20, 2008 10:16AM) (new)


message 3: by Carol (new)

Carol (zhelicarol) The Good Master by Kate Seredy is a children's book set in pre-war Hungary. I also recommend the Paul Street Boys by Ferenc Molnar, as well as Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944 and Under the Frog: A Novel


message 4: by Laura (last edited Feb 20, 2009 01:01PM) (new)

Laura (questionableadvice) Embers by Sandor Marai


message 8: by Daisy (last edited Sep 15, 2009 09:29AM) (new)

Daisy  | 18 comments The Swimmer by Zsuzsa Bánk
The Door by Magda Szabó


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Laura (swpdxer) | 2 comments Metropole by Ferenc Karinthy


message 10: by Daisy (last edited Jun 08, 2011 07:45PM) (new)

Daisy  | 18 comments Chelsea wrote: "The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer"

Ooooh, yes, that's a good one.


message 11: by Sofia (last edited Aug 14, 2013 12:00AM) (new)

Sofia Hallay (sofiahallay) | 1 comments The Nightmare (A gólyakalifa) by Babits Mihály.
Fatelessness (Sorstalanság) by Kertész Imre.

The latter is truly one of a kind in Holocaust literature in my opinion. It really opened my eyes about the fact that we tend to think about the Holocaust as something done by inhumane monsters which is dangerous and ignorant, because that way we comfortably distance it from ourselves. But the fact is that the Holocaust was done by people just like us and that is a scary reality we are not ready to accept.


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