{"product_id":"budapest-diary-9780803292611","title":"Budapest Diary","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA poignant piece of self-revelation, sprinkled with some trenchant observations on the way the dead hand of history has weighed down the former Warsaw Pact countries\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I recommend this autobiographical narrative because it is grave and beautiful. Better still, it is shatteringly truthful.\"—Elie Wiesel\u003cbr\u003e\"Susan Rubin was a little girl when her parents fled through darkened fields to escape the Communist regime in Hungary in 1949. . . . [This] is a poignant piece of self-revelation, sprinkled with some trenchant observations on the way the dead hand of history has weighed down the former Warsaw Pact countries.\"—\u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] fascinating, revealing journal . . . brutally honest.\"—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This pensive, forthright journal records Suleiman’s efforts to reconnect with a long-forgotten homeland.\"—\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Suleiman lyrically describes her quest and the complex interaction of the Eastern Europe of the past and present.\"—\u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A tale of survival, adaptation and pure luck, whose darker side reveals the linguistic and emotional cost of emigration and exile, the feeling of permanent displacement, of being nowhere at home.\"—\u003ci\u003eForward\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This story must speak to all those who have fled and who have ever dreamed of a return.\"—\u003ci\u003eIndependent Jewish Women’s Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] thoughtful and sophisticated memoir. . . . You don’t have to be Hungarian or Jewish to appreciate writing like this.\"—\u003ci\u003eMontreal Gazette\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book should provide interesting not only to an academic audience, but also to a wider public . . . The author’s personal reflections provide insight into a cultural experience which many Americans share: that of carrying with them a mixed, vaguely distant, and sometimes troubling cultural heritage.\"—Claudia Moscovici, \u003ci\u003eNovel\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405295984983,"sku":"9780803292611","price":15.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780803292611.jpg?v=1730489514","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/budapest-diary-9780803292611","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}