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Memoir of Hungary

Sandor Marai

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Anne Applebaum recommends it
Sándor Márai is one of the great Hungarian novelists. He was in Hungary during the war, and left in 1948. This book is about a neutral intellectual's encounter with communism, and it records what he saw as it happened.

on fivebooks.com · 5 Mar 2012

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