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Battlefields and playgrounds / János Nyiri ; translated from the Hungarian by William Brandon and the author.
Library at the Katz Center - Stacks PH3291.N828 M3413 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nyíri, János, 1932-
- Series:
- Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series ; 23.
- Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series ; 23
- Standardized Title:
- Madárország. English
- Language:
- English
- Hungarian
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1939-1945--Hungary--Fiction.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Hungary--Fiction.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- Hungary.
- Budapest (Hungary)--History--1872-1945--Fiction.
- Budapest (Hungary).
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 536 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- [Waltham, Mass.] : Brandeis University Press ; Hanover, NH : University Press of New England, [1997]
- Summary:
- It is the story of Jozsef Sondor, a tough, irreverently witty Jewish boy growing up in World War II Hungary. Jozsef carries the reader into the whirl of everyday life in war-torn Budapest, from the eve of the Holocaust in Hungary to the Russian liberation in 1945. Through his eyes, we witness history, or, as he sees it, the adult world gone mad. What is this "Jewish problem", he asks. And what can God be thinking of? Jozsef soon finds that his questions have no simple answers, but they do lead him on a journey to understanding the war, politics, religion, and, in the end, the complexity of human nature.
- ISBN:
- 0874518016
- OCLC:
- 36103820
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