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Valeria is a whale in a puddle. She harrumphs her daily way through her backwater Hungarian village, finding equal fault with the new, the old, the foreign, and the familiar. Her decades of universal contempt have turned her into a touchstone of her little community—whatever she scorns the least mus...
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Ultimately very sweet story of Elza, a Hungarian chef whose talents in the kitchen outweigh those in business- and life. Told in a folk-tale style reminiscent of Fitten's first book, the story was at different times frustrating, suspenseful, sad and wonderful. I can see this making a really fun movi...
I received this as a goodreads giveaway.The first five or six chapters are pretty meh, I paused after that for about four months before picking it up again. But I'm glad I did! It goes a lot of unexpected places, although I would have loved if the character of the Critic was more prominent, he was t...
This book disappointed me! I thought I would get something similar to A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, but it totally lacked the charm and humor of the latter. The humor in this book is slapstick. This isn't the type of humor that amuses me. The story is about a love affair, actually severa...
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