Guest in My Own Country A Hungarian Life

Name: Guest in My Own Country A Hungarian Life
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ISBN: 9781590511398

ISBN-10: 1590511395

ISBN-13: 9781590511398

Edition: 2007

Authors: George Konrad, Michael Henry Heim, George Konrad

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A powerful memoir of war, politics, literature, and family life by one of Europe's leading intellectuals. When George Konrad was a child of eleven, he, his sister, and two cousins managed to flee to Budapest from the Hungarian countryside the day before deportations swept through his home town. Ultimately, they were the only Jewish children of the town to survive the Holocaust. "A Guest in My Own Country" recalls the life of one of Eastern Europe's most accomplished modern writers, beginning with his survival during the final months of the war. Konrad captures the dangers, the hopes, the betrayals and courageous acts of the period through a series of carefully chosen episodes that…

Book details

List price: $19.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Other Press, LLC
Publication date: 4/17/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 308
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.25" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English