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PLON, 1998
Des sa publication a Budapest en 1986, puis en Allemagne, en Hollande, en Amérique et en Angleterre, Le livre des mémoires a été reconnu comme un chef-d'oeuvre, un immense roman a la structure élégante, d'une profondeur stupéfiante.
Price: 14 995 Ft
ROWOHLT TASCHENBUCH VERLAG, 1996
Eigentlich ist der Mann zu seiner Geliebten gekommen, um ihr zu sagen, daß er sich trennen will.
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ROWOHLT TASCHENBUCH VERLAG, 2013
Im Jahr des Mauerfalls findet der Student Döhring beim Joggen im Berliner Tiergarten eine Leiche. Diese Szene eröffnet die weitgespannte Suche nach dem düsteren Geheimnis zweier Familien
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LA NAVE DI TESEO EDITORE S.R.L., 2024
La vita di un villaggio ungherese sulle rive del Danubio negli anni sessanta potrebbe sembrare, a prima vista, semplice e idilliaca nella sua tranquillita bucolica, ma la realta e molto piu complessa.
Price: 18 875 Ft
ROWOHLT TASCHENBUCH VERLAG, 1999
Denn es ist bestimmt noch niemand der Liebe entronnen, und es wird ihr keiner entgehen, solange es Schönheit gibt und Augen, die sehen.
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RUMEURS, 2022
J’ai porté des statues jusque sur le bateau et voila pourquoi j’ai sombré.
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ARC PUBLICATIONS, 2010
This first major gathering of the younger poets of Hungary witnesses to the poetics of a new post-1989 Europe. The poetics are still in the making but important poets appear and develop.
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ANACONDA VERLAG GMBH, 2009
Ende der 1920er Jahre war die »Wiener Gemütlichkeit« geradezu sprichwörtlich geworden.
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SHURKAMP TASCHENBUCH, 2002
An allem ist nur dieses Luder schuld. Diese Schnallen. Dieses Fräulein Karoline! Ödön von Horváth
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THULE EDICIONES, 2014
Los microrrelatos de Örkény son textos reducidos a su esencia cuyo rasgo principal es el humor y el absurdo.
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CAMBOURAKIS, 2009
Örkény István: Rózsakiállítás
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CAMBOURAKIS, 2019
De lettres en coups de téléphones, Le chat et la souris met en scene, dans des situations absurdes, des personnes âgées que l'amour rend aussi risibles qu'attendrissantes.
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DANUBE BOOKS VERLAG, 2023
Zsuzsa Radnóti, Dramaturgin und Witwe Örkénys, autorisierte die Übersetzerin Tünde Malomvölgyizur Herausgabe dieses István Örkény-Lesebuchs.
Price: 13 890 Ft
NEW DIRECTIONS PUBLISHING, 1982
The Flower Show and The Toth Family, two novellas in one volume by István Örkény (1912-79), introduce to an English-speaking audience a Hungarian writer with a keen sense of the absurdities of modern life.
Price: 9 025 Ft
ANDERE BIBLIOTHEK, 2009
Die Jungs heißen Gabor, Attila, Medve, Benedek, Orban oder Pal, sind zehn Jahre alt, kommen meist aus wohlhabenden ungarischen Familien und erleben die ersten Wochen in der Kadettenschule in Kőszeg.
Price: 21 750 Ft
HURST & COMPANY LONDON, 2012
How has Hungary, a country once in the vanguard of political and economic reform under Communism, become a chilling example of the new threats confronting democracy in Central Europe?
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BLOODAXE BOOKS, 1999
György Petri (1943-2000) belonged to the generation of Hungarian poets who grew up after the uprising of 1956. He made his name in the West as the most uncompromising and outrageous of his country's dissident authors.
Price: 9 990 Ft
ANFORA, 2024
Transilvania, allora Ungheria, 1944. Alaine Polcz all'eta di diciannove anni si sposa con un uomo che ama, senza sapere quanto ne sia riamata.
Price: 13 850 Ft
NEW AMERICAN PRESS, 2014
Miklós Radnóti (1909-1944), whose work beautifully combines colloquial modernism with Virgilian classicism, is best known internationally as one of the great poets of the Holocaust.
Price: 10 750 Ft
ARC PUBLICATIONS, 2019
Camp Notebook is a masterpiece in its own right, a crucial work of European verse.
Price: 8 125 Ft
EÖTVÖS JÓZSEF KÖNYVKIADÓ BT, 2010
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AMERICANA EBOOKS, 2015
This new book contains new translations of a selection of poems by the modern magyar poet Radnóti Miklós, a 1935 graduate of the University of Szeged.
Price: 6 350 Ft
PENNILESS PRESS PUBLICATIONS, 2019
THE AUTHOR of this book (1907-1944) was perhaps the greatest poet of the Holocaust, a Jewish Catholic convert who fell victim to a mass murder of Jews perpetrated by the regular Hungarian Army under standard orders.
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CREATESPACE INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING, 2015
Dirty Fred, the lost battleship’s infamous captain, shows a different side in this novel: the side of a soft hearted father, who does everything he can to help his son, into the royal seat
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CREATESPACE INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING, 2016
Le roman "L'Automobile a 14 Carats d'Or" est un roman plein d'humour, publié en 1940, de l'auteur hongrois Jenö REJTÖ (1905-1943). C'est avec un grand plaisir que j'en propose ici la premiere traduction en français. Evguénia Lewinski, traductrice.
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CREATESPACE INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING, 2015
The readers may well remember the battleship called Balmoral, which disappeared from a port in Ceylon without a trace, so that later on, under the name of Radzeer and under the command of Dirty Fred, the Captain, she could carry out heroic deeds.
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CREATESPACE INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING, 2014
The battleship ‘Balmoral’ has gone missing, although it’s not lost at all. Dirty Fred and a group of happy scoundrels ‘borrow’ it to rescue Tom Leven and his important invention
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ROWOHLT TASCHENBUCH VERLAG, 2010
Um sich von den Strapazen seiner Liaison mit Piroska zu erholen, flüchtet der Schriftsteller Levente Rostás in ein Sanatorium.
Price: 7 750 Ft
PHOENIX, 2010
For more than 40 years after the II. World War the Iron Curtain divided Europe physically,with 300 km of walls and barbed wire fences; ideologically, between communism and capitalism; psychologically,...
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PHOENIX, 2007
The Hungarian Revolution in 1956 is a story of extraordinary bravery in a fight for freedom, and of ruthless cruelty in suppressing a popular dream.
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CREATESPACE INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING, 2018
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LE LIVRE DE POCHE, 2019
Abigél francia nyelven. Traduit du hongrois par Chantal Philippe.
Price: 7 025 Ft
NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS, 2020
Abigail, the story of a headstrong teenager growing up during World War II, is the most beloved of Magda Szabó's books in her native Hungary.
Price: 9 550 Ft
MACLEHOSE PRESS, 2021
It is late 1943 and Hitler, exasperated by the slowness of his Hungarian ally to act on the "Jewish question" and alarmed by the weakness on his southern flank, is preparing to occupy the country.
Price: 5 550 Ft
ANFORA, 2022
Seconda guerra mondiale: un generale dell'esercito ungherese, vedovo, segretamente nelle liste di coloro che non desiderano il conflitto, decide di proteggere l'unica figlia inserendola in un isolato collegio.
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NILSSON FÖRLAG, 2022
I samma stund som Gina klev över tröskeln befann hon sig i en annan värld, den värld som skulle bli hennes hem och som skulle komma att förändra hennes tillvaro lika radikalt som när ett barn kommer till världen eller en döende ger upp andan.
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SALANI, 2015
Budapest, inverno del 1960. Kristi ha quindici anni e il carattere chiuso di una ragazzina cresciuta all'ombra di una tragedia troppo grande.
Price: 9 175 Ft
DEBOLSILLO, 2012
Una novela sobre la nostalgia de la infancia y el destino que corren las relaciones que nacen en la infancia. Calle Katalin narra la historia de tres familias que viven en la misma calle de Budapest.
Price: 7 095 Ft
MINÚSCULA, 2018
A pesar de ser una de las actrices de teatro con más renombre de Hungría, Eszter arrastra desde la infancia una profunda frustración. Su familia, aunque de orígenes aristocráticos, es muy pobre.
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SHURKAMP TASCHENBUCH, 2012
Magda Szabo schildert in ihrem Roman die Beziehung zwischen einer allein lebenden Schriftstellerin und ihrer Haushälterin.
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VINTAGE BOOKS, 2015
When Ettie's husband dies, her daughter Iza insists that her mother give up the family house in the countryside and move to Budapest.
Price: 4 290 Ft
NYRB CLASSICS, 2017
From the author of The Door, selected as one of the New York Times "10 Best Books of 2015," this is a heartwrenching tale about a group of friends and lovers torn apart by the German occupation of Budapest during World War II.
Price: 7 725 Ft
EINAUDI, 2017
E un lungo sfogo, crudele e pieno di astio, quello con cui Eszter, fra le piu affermate attrici teatrali nell'Ungheria del secondo dopoguerra, si rivolge a Lórinc, il grande amore della sua vita.
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VIVIANE HAMY, 2005
Quand Magda Szabó évoquait L'Instant, elle en parlait comme d'une " bombe ".
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DEBOLSILLO, 2010
En la Hungría de la posguerra se muestra la confrontación de dos mundos personificados por una madre y su hija
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VIVIANE HAMY, 2005
Une histoire d'amour, d'incompréhension et de désespoir.
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EINAUDI, 2006
Quando muore il marito Vince, un giudice che durante gli anni del fascismo ungherese aveva subito gravi torti, la vecchia signora Szocs si ritrova completamente sola nella modesta casa di famiglia nella campagna ungherese.
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EINAUDI, 2014
E un rapporto molto conflittuale, fatto di continue rotture e difficili riconciliazioni, a legare la narratrice a Emerenc Szeredas, la donna che la aiuta nelle faccende domestiche.
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VIVIANE HAMY, 2013
L'histoire d'une jalousie, l'histoire d'une vie...
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VIVIANE HAMY, 2009
Le Vieux Puits est un livre fascinant. Par de brefs chapitres thématiques –; Mes parents, La ville, Autoportrait, La religion, Le théâtre, Le temps, Éveil, etc.
Price: 15 450 Ft
ANFORA, 2020
Lolo, il figlio di Iris, regina delle fate, desidera diventare un bambino del mondo reale ma una minaccia incombe, la sua mamma e la pace del regno sono in grave pericolo:
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VIVIANE HAMY, 2006
Ils s’étaient soudain rendu compte que le temps avait désagrégé leur passé, alors que durant leur enfance et leurs années de jeunesse, ils l’avaient considéré comme un ensemble compact bien cimenté. »
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VINTAGE BOOKS, 2020
Elegant, pocket-sized paperbacks, VINTAGE Editions celebrate the audacity and ambition of the written word, transporting readers to wherever in the world literary innovation may be found.
Price: 4 290 Ft
NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS, 2023
Eszter, the narrator and protagonist of The Fawn, may well be Szabó’s most fascinating creation.
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MACLEHOSE PRESS, 2023
Eszter Encsy is an acclaimed actress, funny and outrageous, quick-witted but callous. Yet even flushed with the success of adulthood, Eszter craves acceptance of herself as she really is and of the person she has been.
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STORK PRESS, 2012
Everybody wants to be a vampire these days . . . don't they?
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SPIEGEL & GRAU, 2013
Marianne Szegedy-Maszák’s parents, Hanna and Aladár, met and fell in love in Budapest in 1940. He was a rising star in the foreign ministry—a vocal anti-Fascist who was in talks with the Allies when he was arrested and sent to Dachau.
Price: 8 350 Ft
NYRB CLASSICS, 2020
A Dickensian coming-of-age tale about poverty, sex, World War I, and the darker side of human nature as seen through the eyes of a lobby boy in a Budapest hotel.
Price: 7 525 Ft
DIOGENES, 2016
Der Welterfolg des ungarischen Autors und das Lieblingsbuch vieler begeisterter Leser und Buchhändler neu aufgelegt.
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CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1994
Primarily a piece of creative writing and autobiographical literature of a very distinctive Central European kind, this detailed and imaginative short memoir is also an important document of the Holocaust in Hungary in 1944.
Price: 12 825 Ft
PIPER VERLAG GMBH, 2008
Ob als Kultbuch der Esoterik oder als Meisterwerk der Fantasy, das gewaltige Epos der ungarischen Autorin lässt sich auf beide Arten lesen.
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TRE EDITORI, 1997
All'alba della seconda guerra mondiale un uomo misterioso, che si presenta come Adam Cadmon, consegna ad uno studioso il manoscritto di una storia fantastica:
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DTV, 2008
Ein ungarischer Büchernarr gerät auf einem walisischen Schloss unversehens in ein gespenstisches Verwirrspiel.
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SIRUELA, 2004
Un hombre de letras y doctor en filología, el húngaro János Bátky, de 32 anos, se encuentra en Londres en el verano de 1933 estudiando las teorías de los teósofos ingleses del siglo XVII, el ocultismo, la alquimia, la historia de los rosacruces y la vida
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VIVIANE HAMY, 2011
Mihály est en voyage de noces en Italie avec Erzsi. A Venise, Mihály fait des escapades nocturnes sans pouvoir expliquer pourquoi. Il a conscience seulement d'e^tre un individu différent.
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MAGVETŐ KIADÓ, 2024
Perhaps the most compelling short-story writer in Hungary today, Edina Szvoren charts human relations with rare sensitivity in her trademark grotesque, absurd yet playful style.
Price: 7 999 Ft
CONTRA MUNDUM PRESS, 2015
As the first translation into English of one of Tar's books, Anglophone readers will at last come to understand why many contemporary Hungarian authors have expressed unreserved admiration for his writing.
Price: 9 990 Ft
CORVINA KIADÓ, 2018
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NISCHEN VERLAG, 2015
2013 erschien im Nischen Verlag die deutsche Ausgabe von Krisztina Tóths Roman PIXEL, die es neben fulminanten Kritiken im deutschsprachigen Feuilleton auch auf Platz 1 der ORF-Bestenliste geschafft hat.
Price: 10 550 Ft
GALLIMARD, 208
Quinze étapes de vies de femme, de la petite enfance a l'âge adulte. Quinze voix, quinze histoires et presque autant d'exemples de la fragilité des jours, entre Budapest, le Japon et Paris.
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NISCHEN VERLAG, 2017
Was sucht eine Leiche in einer Ausstellung? Wohin fahren die Gastarbeiter aus Siebenbürgen in ihrem Kleinbus? Was geschah mit der Frau, der der Kopf in einem Supermarkt plötzlich heruntergefallen war?
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SEAGULL, 2019
Like stars in the sky, pixels may seem like tiny, individual points. But, when viewed from a distance, they can create elaborate images.
Price: 15 990 Ft
EDIZIONI ETS, 2020
Storie che si intrecciano nel tempo e nello spazio, indipendenti eppure combacianti come tessere di un unico mosaico.
Price: 9 375 Ft
DIALOG KÜLTÜR SANAT YAPIM, 2013
Zigetvar'in Düsüsü
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BIRLEŞIK YAYiNEVI, 2016
Aynadaki Hançer ve Zigetvar Kalkanlari'ndan sonra Zigetvar Üçlemesi'nin son kitabi olan Zigetvar 'in Kara Çiçekleri,
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