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In prewar Budapest three families live side by side on gracious Katalin Street, their lives closely intertwined. A game is played by the four children in which Ba?lint, the promising son of the Major, invariably chooses Ire?n Elekes, the headmaster's dutiful elder daughter, over her younger sister, the scatterbrained Blanka, and little Henriette Held, the daughter of the Jewish dentist. Their lives are torn apart in 1944 by the German occupation, which only the Elekes family survives intact. The postwar regime relocates them to a cramped Soviet-style apartment and they struggle to come to terms with social and political change, personal loss, and unstated feelings of guilt over the deportation of the Held parents and the death of little Henriette, who had been left in their protection. But the girl survives in a miasmal afterlife, and reappears at key moments as a mute witness to the inescapable power of past events.--… (más)
La historia de tres familias que viven en la misma calle de Budapest. Trienta años de la historia de Hungría son relatados a través de los hijos de tres familias que viven en la Calle Katalin de Budapest. El compromiso entre dos de ellos en la primavera de 1944 y el estallido de la guerra significará para todos la contradictoria y dolorosa salida de la infancia y la adolescencia. Una novela sobre el pasado definitivamente perdido y un presente perseguido por los muertos que no se olvidan nunca. Premio Cévennes a la mejor novela europea 2007.
In prewar Budapest three families live side by side on gracious Katalin Street, their lives closely intertwined. A game is played by the four children in which Ba?lint, the promising son of the Major, invariably chooses Ire?n Elekes, the headmaster's dutiful elder daughter, over her younger sister, the scatterbrained Blanka, and little Henriette Held, the daughter of the Jewish dentist. Their lives are torn apart in 1944 by the German occupation, which only the Elekes family survives intact. The postwar regime relocates them to a cramped Soviet-style apartment and they struggle to come to terms with social and political change, personal loss, and unstated feelings of guilt over the deportation of the Held parents and the death of little Henriette, who had been left in their protection. But the girl survives in a miasmal afterlife, and reappears at key moments as a mute witness to the inescapable power of past events.--
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Premio Cévennes a la mejor novela europea 2007.