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The hunt for Henryk's family is really good stuff, again I wish there was more than just ideation substituted for love on his wife who seems interesting but is never given love in her role!

Vilmos Csillag was right on my doorstep (right before he got his head beaten in for being too cheap to take a taxi)!!!

Vilmos Csillag, like most of his fathers before him, has really demented taste in women (or else they just literally fall on them). For sure #1 complaint about this book and worth taking off a whole star.

Poor Hungary, out of the pot of Nazi and into the Soviet frying pan.

Destruction of the book of fathers also ruins the memories of the family, Balazs Csilleg can't be blamed for what he did but likely not in his right mind.

Nandor Csillag ended a magnificent life in worst way possible at Nazi work camp and then gas chamber.

Nandor Csillag knew so much and could not see what danger Jews would be to Hungary from Austria.

Sandor Csillag gets to have it all - both sisters and a kids named Andor to boot!

Oh, and yet here Mendel Berda-Stern just gives up and lets his wife die, then hangs himself.... cmon man

Mendel Berda-Stern starts the strongest run of good luck. The astrology expert who wins a fortune gambling.

Szilard Berda-Stern remains dumb, chasing this woman but at least he is warned off.

Another daft one, his head beat in and he mentally harasses his mom.

Szulard's mom is totally usesless.

Otto Stern was daft in the head, more so than many of the earlier Csilligs

Wild to think of a croquet fortune.

I marked this to say "poor Robert" but really these poor wives who we never get to really meet except in gruesome death (and even worse any sisters).

First of many times our bloodline is presented danger but ignores it, this time a mob attacking Jews.

Ok, Istvan becoming Jewish and being disowned by is family I finally like one of the Sternovosky’s. Now the Sterns I guess!

Or everyone in this family line going to be this dumb? Average age is like 30

Well, perfect memory or not he still can’t defuse a fight or see when is best not to engage.

Why did I think the Gypsies took the gold watch? How did Kornel get it?

Kornel already gone. Everyone is so impulsive even this really smart and gifted guy challenged someone to a dual… I wonder what is in grandpa Czuczor’s rose garden pit.
Going to have to get used to how much the temporal POV changes

Whole village now dead, grandpa tortured to death