New Books

Teri Szűcs: My Memory Came Back to Me

When her mother was diagnosed with dementia, Teri Szűcs started to take notes. She recorded the changes in her mother’s physical and mental state, their conversations, their daily routine, as well as their odyssey in the Hungarian health care system. More

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Dénes Krusovszky: The Leaf Drop Mystery

One spring, in a small town in Eastern Hungary, the trees suddenly shed all their leaves. Is this some natural disaster, or the result of human negligence?  More





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Panni Puskás: Saving Anyone

Panni Puskás was hailed by critics as “provocative” and “punk”. Her novel is a set of monologues by three women from Budapest – two of them in their thirties, one in her fifties. More





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Csaba Iglódi: Dreher Symphony – Malt to Monarchy

Csaba Iglódi’s family novel spans two centuries and four generations of the Dreher beer brewing dynasty. The story is set between the early 1800s and 1946, and focuses on four men – four fathers and managers. More

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Gábor Vida: A City for All and None

A peculiarly 20th century Central-Eastern European story, halfway Hungarian and halfway Romanian, but Transylvanian through and through. More

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Róbert Milbacher: Bitter Waters

Bitter Waters chronicles the life of a woman who had faced great physical and mental suffering, yet never had time to reflect, as well as the life of a short-lived settlement in Slavonia (now East Croatia), founded in the 1860’s only to disappear without a trace in the onslaught of World War II. More

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Sándor Csősz: Aliens of Earth

The complex social world of ants has fascinated people since prehistoric times. Though comparisons are often drawn between the world of ants and humans, nothing could be further from the truth. More

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Zsuzsa Rakovszky: Sign of the Times

Münster, the 1530s. Tensions are growing between Catholics and Protestants. As emotions are running high, radical Anabaptists seize the city hall, and proclaim that Münster, under their rule, is the ‘New Jerusalem.’ More

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Krisztina Tóth: The Monkey’s Eyes

Krisztina Tóth’s latest novel is set in a bleak city in the bleakest of times. The scene is an isolated country that has recently been through a devastating civil war. The new government rules with an iron hand and society is fatally divided. More

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