Book Highlight: Prof. Peter Hargitai, "Daughter of the Revolution: A Novel"
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Book Highlight: Prof. Peter Hargitai, "Daughter of the Revolution: A Novel" |
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"For 12 days in 1956, the Hungarian people caught a fleeting glimpse of their independence. Armed with little more than a love of liberty, the impatient patriots of Hungary rose up against the mighty Soviet empire. They stormed the jails and they freed political prisoners. For 12 days, there was hope, but then came the response and it was terrible and ferocious. Soviet troops and tanks rumbled into Hungary, killing tens of thousands of people and condemning thousands of others to Siberian gulags." - Condoleezza Rice, U.S. Secretary of State "We have only one way of being true to Hungary, and that is never
to betray, among ourselves and everywhere, what the Hungarian heroes died
for." - "On the fiftieth anniversary of the Hungarian uprising, Peter Hargitai's newest novel, Daughter of the Revolution, captures the spirit of that time as it follows the Cheetah, a 14 year-old schoolgirl turned revolutionary who takes on the tanks and machine guns of the Soviet Red Army." - Richard A. Schwartz, author of Cold War Reference Guide, Cold War Culture, and a political novel, The Conflicted Liberal. The book is now available in the Hungarian language from Puski Kiado (trans. by Laura Lukacs): "A forradalom lánya" Magyar Menedék Könyvesház "Barna Izabellának hívnak.Tizennégy éves vagyok.Tegnap még egyszeru iskoláslány voltam. Ma megöltem egy embert. Nem születtem gyilkosnak. Anyám, apám nagyon szeretett.1956 október 23.-án kezdodött. Most már nincs anyám sem apám. Most a nyakamban lógó géppisztoly áll a legközelebb a szívemhez. Most már a forradalom lánya vagyok..." See [ALL AHF PUBLICATIONS] or go [back to all AHF news] |
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Here] to order on Magyarul: "A forradalom lánya" Magyar Menedék Könyvesház "Barna Izabellának hívnak.Tizennégy éves vagyok.Tegnap még egyszeru iskoláslány voltam. Ma megöltem egy embert. Nem születtem gyilkosnak. Anyám, apám nagyon szeretett.1956 október 23.-án kezdodött. Most már nincs anyám sem apám. Most a nyakamban lógó géppisztoly áll a legközelebb a szívemhez. Most már a forradalom lánya vagyok..." AHF Store on Help AHF by purchasing products using its Amazon account! You pay nothing more and AHF earns a small percentage: About the Author
His book of translations of Attila József, Perched on Nothing's Branch is listed in Harold Bloom's The Western Canon. Peter Hargitai is also past recipient of the Landon Translation Award from the American Academy of Poets and The Füst Milán Award from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. His other books are available for purchase on the AHF bookstore on Prof. Hargitai's Website: www.freewebs.com/hargitai Links
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Peter
Hargitai wrote his first poem during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution,
when he was nine years old. Professor Hargitai grew up in the tiny village
of Balástya in southern Hungary. He and his family fled the country
in the aftermath of the Hungarian Revolution. They settled in the United
States where he obtained a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University
of Massachusetts at Amherst. Since then, he has published several books
and award-winning translations from Hungarian literature for which he
was awarded the Pro Cultura Hungarica medal from the Republic of Hungary.
He has taught at several American universities including the University
of Miami, the University of Massachusetts, and Florida International University
where he is currently on the English faculty.
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