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Embers
by Sándor Márai
Originally published in 1942 and now rediscovered to international acclaim, this taut and exquisitely structured novel by the Hungarian master Sandor Marai conjures the melancholy glamour of a decaying empire and the disillusioned wisdom of its last heirs. In a secluded woodland castle an old General prepares to receive a rare visitor, a man who was once his closest friend but who he has not seen in forty-one... (more)
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Fatelessness Trilogy: Book 1
Fatelessness
by Imre Kertész
At the age of 14 Georg Koves is plucked from his home in a Jewish section of Budapest and without any particular malice, placed on a train to Auschwitz. He does not understand the reason for his fate. He doesn’t particularly think of himself as Jewish. And his fellow prisoners, who decry his lack of Yiddish, keep telling him, “You are no Jew.” In the lowest circle of the Holocaust, Georg remains an outsider. The... (more)
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The Book of Fathers
by Miklós Vámos
Twelve men - running in direct line line from father to eldest son, who in turn becomes a father - are the heroes of this wonderful family saga which runs over 300 years' panorama of Hungarian life and history. Each man also passes to his son certain unusual gifts: the ability to see the past, and in some cases to see the future too. The fathers also pass on a book in which they have left a personal record ('The... (more)
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Fatelessness Trilogy: Book 3
Kaddish for an Unborn Child
by Imre Kertész
The first word in this mesmerizing novel by the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature is “No.” It is how the novel’s narrator, a middle-aged Hungarian-Jewish writer, answers an acquaintance who asks him if he has a child. It is the answer he gave his wife (now ex-wife) years earlier when she told him that she wanted one. The loss, longing and regret that haunt the years between those two “no”s give rise to one... (more)
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The Melancholy of Resistance
by Laszlo Krasznahorkai
A powerful, surreal novel, in the tradition of Gogol, about the chaotic events surrounding the arrival of a circus in a small Hungarian town. The Melancholy of Resistance , László Krasznahorkai's magisterial, surreal novel, depicts a chain of mysterious events in a small Hungarian town. A circus, promising to display the stuffed body of the largest whale in the world, arrives in the dead of winter, prompting... (more)
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Journey by Moonlight
by Antal Szerb
A wonderful hidden treasure from Central Europe named book of the year in The Times, Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian and the Daily Telegraph in the U.K. "A great novel . . . Antal Szerb belongs with the master novelists of the 20th century."—Paul Bailey, Daily Telegraph "No one who has read this book has failed to love it."—Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian "A burning book, a major book."—George... (more)
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The Case Worker
by George Konrád
The daily routine of a man in charge of children at a state welfare organizat and the demands that are made upon him are depicted in this novel set in present day Hungary.
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Celestial Harmonies
by Peter Esterhazy
Princes, counts, commanders, diplomats, bishops, and patrons of the arts, revered, respected, and occasionally feared by their contemporaries, the Esterházy family was among the greatest and most powerful aristocrats in Hungarian history. Celestial Harmonies is the intricate chronicle of this remarkable family, a story spanning seven centuries of epic conquest, tragedy, triumph, and near annihilation. Told by... (more)
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A Hintalovak Nappal Alszanak
by Schaffer Erzsébet
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Eclipse of the Crescent Moon
by Géza Gárdonyi
Text: English (translation) Original Language: Hungarian
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Egri Csillagok (Hungarian, Magyar)
by Gardonyi Geza
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The Writing on the Wall Trilogy: Book 1
They Were Counted (UNESCO Collection of Representative Works: European)
by Miklós Bánffy
Paints an unrivalled portrait of the vanished world of pre-1914 Hungary, as seen through the eyes of two young aristocratic Transylvanian cousins.
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The Dukays
by Lajos Zilahy
The Dukays are the oldest aristocratic family in Hungary, and this is the tale of their inexorable decline after the First World War. It is the story of Zia Dukay, youngest of Count Dupi's daughters, a modern girl born into feudal splendor in the immense family castle of Ararat, and married with medieval pomp. Not since Scarlett O'Hara has there been so courageous a heroine, so determined to survive the wreck of... (more)
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Epépé
by Ferenc Karinthy, Judith Karinthy, Pierre Karinthy
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The End of a Family Story
by Peter Nadas
From the author of A Book of Memories comes a dazzling novel set in 1950s Hungary that celebrates the imagination as an indispensable tool for survival. The narrator of The End of a Family Story is a young boy who lives alone with his grandparents. His rebellious, talkative grandfather escapes the present by fleeing to his memories of the past, weaving for his grandson a fantastic tapestry of stories both of... (more)
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The Ultimate Intimacy
by Ivan Klíma
When a beautiful stranger comes to hear him preach, Pastor Daniel Vedra soon finds himself falling in love with another man's wife. With the brilliance and humanity that have made him a major figure in world literature, Ivan Klima explores the universal themes of love, adultery and God.
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The Orient Express
by Gregor von Rezzori
Abruptly leaving his American wife, job, and home, a European-born tycoon purchases a ticket for the famed Orient Express and, as he rides across Europe, muses on the differences between Europe as it is and Europe as he remembers it.
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The Snows of Yesteryear
by Gregor von Rezzori
Gregor von Rezzori's account of his childhood, recreating the world of Central Europe that vanished in 1938. It sheds a light on influences that have contributed to recent national turmoil. The book centres on the Bukovina - at one time an Austro-Hungarian province, then a part of Romania, and later absorbed into the Ukraine - and, in a series of portraits, describes the family and household that shaped his... (more)
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Le Cerf-volant d'or
by Dezsö Kosztolányi, Eva Vingiano de Pina Martins
Le Cerf-volant d’or est le dernier roman de Kosztolányi à sortir en bis.Les livres de l’auteur hongrois remportent un vrai succès dans la collection (plus de 15 000 ex. du Traducteur cleptomane vendus à ce jour). Si Alouette et Anna la douce présentaient deux destins de femme, Le Cerf-volant d’or « cerne » l'existence d'Antal Novàk, professeur de mathématiques-physique-chimie du lycée de Szárzeg (ville imaginaire... (more)
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Anna Édes
by Dezső Kosztolányi
Kosztolanyi, Anna Edes. Cruelty and emptiness of Bourgeois life permeate this novel.

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