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Siege 13 (2012)

by Tamas Dobozy(Favorite Author)

3.81 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1771022043 (ISBN13: 9781771022040)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Thomas Allen Publishers

review 1: The short story craft at its best. These interconnected stories explore the horrors of the fall of Budapest to the Red Army during WWII and the impacts of the resulting Hungarian diaspora on subsequent generations, a topic I am embarrassed to say I knew little about until this book. Dobozy presents this dark subject with great beauty through multiple character perspectives on the impossible choices humans must make in war times and the stories they tell themselves to survive. "The Beautician," told midway through the collection, is one of the most perfect short stories I've ever read.
review 2: Siege 13, a collection of 13 short stories inspired by the ways the siege of Budapest by the Russians in December 1944 impacted the lives of the Hungarian people, won th... moree Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize in 2012. Part personal essay, part exploration of collective memory and identity maintenance, and part alternate world construction, these stories are above all else case studies of "the passing of trauma from one generation to the next" (p. 183). less

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