![]() ![]() Csilla is torn between her dream of escape and her newly found strength of will. ![]() Later that evening, she meets another soulful young man named Tamás, who wants her to discover the fate of his arrested lover, Márk. As she’s followed one day by an ÁVH tail, she is rescued by the unearthly and beautiful Azriel, who turns out to be the angel of death. Now Csilla toils away as a newspaper typist, planning her and Ilona’s escape to Israel. Csilla’s parents survived the deportation of Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz, but her father’s collaboration with the country’s secret police (the ÁVH) has led to their execution. Life in postwar Budapest is gray (literally) as Locke paints the buildings, the inhabitants, their flags, and their clothing as monotone, as if all the color has been leached from the city. ![]() What did you like about the book? Set during the first few days of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising, this novel follows Csilla, who along with her aunt Ilona, are the sole survivors of their extended Jewish family. ![]() Genre: Historical fiction, magical realism Rating: 1-5 (5 is an excellent or a Starred review) 3.5 ![]()
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