Legacy
By (Author) Ivan Sandor
Peter Owen Publishers
Peter Owen Publishers
1st September 2014
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Fiction in translation
813.54
Paperback
292
Width 129mm, Height 198mm
An elderly Jewish man strolls along the Danube Promenade in 2002: a cyclistalmost knocks him down and he is transported back to a similar incident whenthe cyclists were the armband-wearing Arrow-Cross-men, or Hungarian Nazis all as he is just about to participate in an event to mark the memory of a manwho fought them.
Including a tender love story, and endless tales of daring,Legacyis a Holocaust storylike no other richly-praised all over Europe and by one of Hungary's greatestmodern writers.
"Wide-awake and intellectually brilliant . . . leaps virtuoso-like across time-periods, switches narrative perspective and remains, despite its wealth of ideas, absolutely moving--literature that sweeps you along." --"Judische Zeitung"
Ivan Sandor, the author of 29 books since 1967, is among Hungary's most renowned living writers. In a career spanning more than 50 years, he has received Hungary's highest literary honors, including the Sandor Marai Prize and the Kossuth Prize, and has been translated into 12 languages.