Those Absent On the Great Hungarian Plain

Winner of the Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Biographies/Memoirs 2024 A Hungarian village on the Great Plain: a microcosm reflecting this country's history from early tribal invasion to Soviet subordination to European Community membership. Here, peasants, herders, party girls, former Nazis and lapsed communists share gossip as well as love stories; and unscrupulous leaders, totalitarian or freely elected, decide behaviour. Like a fly in amber, this is a moment captured of a time and a place