Valeria's Last Stand
The Hungarian village of Zivatar may be isolated, but it is not completely immune to the changes sweeping the country. The Soviets have left, and the villagers are warming to the blessings of capitalism?expensive cars, cheap women, and California fruit. It's all too much for Valeria, the village...
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The Hungarian village of Zivatar may be isolated, but it is not completely immune to the changes sweeping the country. The Soviets have left, and the villagers are warming to the blessings of capitalism?expensive cars, cheap women, and California fruit. It's all too much for Valeria, the village grouch. And yet, Valeria is not immune to change, either. Her routine trip to the market leads to unexpected love, and sets off a chain reaction through the entire village. A remarkably accomplished debut novel, Valeria's Last Stand contemplates love, lust, tradition, and transition with wisdom and warmth.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781608192090 (1608192091)
ASIN: 1608192091
Publish date: April 27th 2010
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
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...
http://www.bostonbibliophile.com/2009/06/review-valerias-last-stand-by-marc.html
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...
I wanted to read this book. I tried to read this book twice...no go...i couldn't "get into it" at all...maybe this Winter..if the snow is in 3 foot drifts outside my house.The Idea/Story is fine...but the "telling' is Boring
I gave this book two stars because I honestly found it okay. I thought that it could have done more of some things and less of others.The author's writing style was, for the most part, pretty good. There were a couple of parts which I thought could have been better, but it was otherwise okay. Som...
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