Prague

"What does it mean to fret about your fledgling career when the man across the table was tortured by two different regimes? How does your short, uneventful life compare to the lives of those who actually resisted, fought, and died? What does your angst mean in a city still pocked with bullet holes f......more

This novel perfectly captures youth on the precipice of adulthood, full of earnest yearning, eternal questions, irony and a creeping cynicism and even dread that that moment, right then, is about as good as it gets. It's about a group of American expats hanging out in Eastern Europe, Budapest to be......more

A Tale of Two Cities Despite the title, the novel “Prague” is set exclusively in Budapest, the capital of Hungary. A Confession and a Generalisation First, a confession: I am hopelessly, romantically nostalgic about Hungary, a nation I have never visited. There is a girl involved, well a woman, and the......more

Prague promises much more than it actually delivers. I was lured into reading it by the magnitude of praise - it won numerous awards and the reviews were positive, comparing the author to such writers as Kundera and Hemingway, even F. Scott Fitzgerald - unfortunately that's not the case. The novel is......more

Minél kisebb egy ország, annál nagyobb az öröm, ha foglalkoznak vele. "Nézd, az ott a Ferenczy utca, nem?" - böködjük egymás a legújabb Marvel mozi közben. "A tádzsik elnök megint a mi miniszterelnökünkre hivatkozott" - fut át rajtunk az édes borzongás a hírösszefoglalót hallgatva. Boldogok vagyunk,......more