Homage to the Eighth District

Fülszöveg

GIORGIO and NICOLA PRESSBURGER, twin brothers, were bom in Budapest in 1937. They fled to Italy after the Hungarian uprising in 1956. Nicola was well known in Italy as a financial journalist and Giorgio as a writer for screen and theater before the brothers began to create stories together in their adopted language.
Homage to the Eighth District is their flrst work to be published in English. It was published in Italian in 1986, shortly after Nicola's death. A subsequent volume of stories by the brothers was published in Italy in 1988, and a third, by Giorgio, appeared in 1989.
Homcye to the Eighth District won the Pressburgers immediate acclaim in Italy. It has appeared also in Spain, where the Madrid daily, El Pais, praised it as "History, full of the feeling of fable."

"Opens a new, fascinating page in the grand passion of European Jewry" - Books of the Month
The vibrant Jewish quarter of Budapest provides the setting for these stories by Hungarian twin brothers ¦... Tovább

Fülszöveg

GIORGIO and NICOLA PRESSBURGER, twin brothers, were bom in Budapest in 1937. They fled to Italy after the Hungarian uprising in 1956. Nicola was well known in Italy as a financial journalist and Giorgio as a writer for screen and theater before the brothers began to create stories together in their adopted language.
Homage to the Eighth District is their flrst work to be published in English. It was published in Italian in 1986, shortly after Nicola's death. A subsequent volume of stories by the brothers was published in Italy in 1988, and a third, by Giorgio, appeared in 1989.
Homcye to the Eighth District won the Pressburgers immediate acclaim in Italy. It has appeared also in Spain, where the Madrid daily, El Pais, praised it as "History, full of the feeling of fable."

"Opens a new, fascinating page in the grand passion of European Jewry" - Books of the Month
The vibrant Jewish quarter of Budapest provides the setting for these stories by Hungarian twin brothers ¦ refugees since 1956 - that won the prestigious Italian Jesolo Prize. This unusual "composition by two hands" has impressed readers across Europe for its high dignity and perfect artistic control.
The Eighth District is the last great center of European Jewry to withstand the Nazis and Stalin (as well as the crushing of the 1956 uprising). The story of its Jews and Gypsies, peasants and market traders, scholars and musicians has remained hidden until now, both to Hungarians and to the rest of the worid.
Here are its people: the beauty Hona Weiss who comsumes six lovers, one by one, but awaits the seventh in mortal fear; the great survivor Sehna Grun, a massive woman of few words but many precepts; the sickly, humble Nathan, who challenges a celestial council of rabbis - these among many others who are realized with humor, fantasy and tenderness. Vissza