My favorite way to read: with Loki in my lap and a cold beer by my side. 🍺🐾
#catsoflitsy #hungarian 🇭🇺
My favorite way to read: with Loki in my lap and a cold beer by my side. 🍺🐾
#catsoflitsy #hungarian 🇭🇺
Interesting historical fiction novel about Emma and her family.
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Whilst I liked the premise...I wasn't thrilled with the the execution and for me the story fell flat. I prefer a character driven read and this one was just a little too much world building and too little character growth.
Really powerful, but hard to review, especially in this condensed context. Kertész, a non-religious Jewish Hungarian, was a concentration camp survivor, entering the camps at age 14 (and lying about his age). This is a fictional parallel experience, deviant in that our narrator doesn‘t judge as we do, but takes things as they come, processing them in his own practical way. He‘s young enough that this is, in a way, his only reality.
Started this next
One of my favourite quote from a Hungarian book:
,,Those who love each other, search each other. Even if the wind blows them apart, they coming back on their knees. If the sea aparts them, they send their souls throught the ocean: they meet in letter."
#love #hungarian ???❤❤❤❤
"Journey by Moonlight": ?????
The protagonist is lost because the common expectations for an adult don't work for him and it's questioned whether they actually work for anyone. Many options of escape are shown, all have their downsides, but somehow everyone has to deal with life (and death) as good as they can.
Got some yummy pastries from the Hungarian bakery, note the paprika on the napkin.?
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Just a blurb about how much I love the #foodandlit challenge. Every month my horizon expands to more of the world's literature, history, culture and of course various delicacies🥰
This book is another example, I don't think I would have found it otherwise. It feels very modern for a product of the 30s.
It's also quite refreshing to read from and less about this decade, without any artificial foreshadowing of the war.
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