Budapest

I recently finished L'Homme qui partit en fumée by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö which is set in Budapest during the Cold War. I was there in the 1990s but was able to navigate through the streets: not much has changed! It's fun to be able to travel again cities I've visited through books.

I did a tagmash on Budapest, fiction to see what might come up, and these are the first twelve results:

Prague: A Novel by Arthur Phillips
The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer
The Man Who Went Up in Smoke by Maj Sjöwall
Fatelessness by Imre Kertesz
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Liquidation by Imre Kertesz
Budapest by Chico Buarque
Kingdom of Shadows by Alan Furst
Fire Me Up by Katie MacAlister
The Ninth Circle by Alex Bell
Kaddish for an Unborn Child by Imre Kertesz
Under the Frog by Tibor Fischer

The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World

No, no not that wonderful book about Brits sneaking from a Silesian LuftStalag.