ASIN: B017G4PKX4
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 202
“It may have been a year ago that I received the manuscript of Mary Halász’s memoirs from Piroska and Katalin É. Kiss, the two Budapest-based literary scholars who helped the author to assemble her memoirs and who edited them for publication.I confess that I first viewed the manuscript with some suspicion. What can one expect, I wondered, from the reminiscences of an old woman living in Ruthenia, one of Europe’s poorest and, until recently, one of its most isolated regions? Only when reading the piece did I realize how honest, entertaining, and disturbing her story is.This is a unique oevere, not only because it describes life in a region that has been so seldom described for Western audiences, but also because it has been described by an American woman, whom romance has brought to Ruthenia’s largest city, Uzhhorod (in Hungarian: Ungvár) more than sixty years ago. During those sixty odd ...
