Triptych
$31.10
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
1 October 2013
Summary
Budapest, 1956. In this darkest year in the modern history of Hungary, a national uprising against Soviet occupiers and their reign of terror is underway. Eleven-year-old Evike and her firebrand mother steal deep into battle zones in support of civilian freedom fighters armed only with primitive weapons and desperate courage against the heavy artillery of trained Russian troops. Taken in for interrogation by the secret police, little Evike spins a story to deflect attention from her mother’s revolutionary activities. A story that will irrevocably alter a number of lives and reach its tentacles, thirty years later, into the life of Ildiko Palmay.Chicago, 1986. Ildiko, 37, a librarian and ESL teacher, the American-born daughter of Hungarian refugees, is caught in a web of guilt and regret over her mother’s mystifying death. Unsettled by her life and her romantic failures, she finds herself suddenly and unexpectedly drawn back to her roots, first to the Hungarian neighborhood of her youth in Chicago-and eventually to the Russian-occupied city of Budapest. Along the way, she meets a magnetic man who may not be what he seems, uncovers a trail of secrets and betrayals that eventually intersect with the tangled knot of the mother-daughter participants in the Revolution-and she discovers the shocking truth about her mother’s death.Triptych is the suspenseful unfolding of two parallel stories of mother and daughter relationships forged in the brutalities of the 1956 Hungarian revolution. Triptych is about survival, displacement, the corrosive power of secrets, and, ultimately, the healing power of forgiveness.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781464201806 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1464201803 |
| Author: | Margit Liesche |
| Publisher: | Sourcebooks, Inc |
| Imprint: | Poisoned Pen Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 1 October 2013 |
| Weight: | 345g |
| Dimensions: | 140mm x 216mm |
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Critics Review
”“Liesche (Hollywood Buzz, 2009, etc.), the daughter of Hungarian refugees, cleverly weaves her family’s history into a fine mystery that is an ever finer tale about finding one’s roots.”“–Kirkus”“…Novelist Libby ““Havana Lost”” Fischer Hellmann, who has called this book ““a beautifully penned, lyrical blend of past and present.”” She’s right about that.“”–Chicago Tribune”“Liesche packs her wide-eyed adventure with tidbits about aeronautics, vintage Hollywood and the war, honoring the underappreciated women who made such a difference.”“–Kirkus review of Hollywood Buzz”“Liesche is a writer to watch”“–Library Journal review of Lipstick and Lies”“A sharply written adventure/mystery debut with a fine feeling for the period.”“–Kirkus review of Lipstick and Lies
Margit Liesche
The author of LIPSTICK AND LIES and HOLLYWOOD BUZZ, WWII home front mysteries featuring the engaging WASP pilot Pucci Lewis and highly praised for their authenticity, Margit Liesche has appeared on PBS’ History Detectives program.The child of Hungarian missionaries who settled in the U.S. after WWII following years of service in China, she grew up near Chicago and has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for nearly 40 years. Margit’s parents’ stories about their family’s experiences in 1956, told in dark, hushed conversations, filled an impressionable seven-year-old’s imagination. These along with Life magazine photographs of carnage in Budapest streets and a visit from an escaped freedom fighter, underpin her new novel, TRIPTYCH.In recovery from a long career in marketing professional services, Margit now does what she loves: writing, tramping the glorious hills near her home, and frequenting the stacks at her favorite bookstores and libraries.
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