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Iza's Ballad

By George Szirtes (trans)

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Hardcover:

9781846552656 | Gardners Books, August 7, 2014, cover price $27.40

Paperback:

9781681370347 | New York Review of Books, October 18, 2016, cover price $16.95

The Last Wolf

Product Description: TwoÂ short masterworks by the most recent winner of the Man Booker International Prize: here, in miniature, is every reason why he wonThe Last Wolf, translated by George Szirtes,Â features a classic, obsessed Krasznahorkai narrator, a man hired to write (by mistake, by a glitch of fate) the true tale of the last wolf of Extremadura, a barren stretch of Spain...read more

By George Szirtes (trans)

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9780811226080 | New Directions, September 6, 2016, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: TwoÂ short masterworks by the most recent winner of the Man Booker International Prize: here, in miniature, is every reason why he wonThe Last Wolf, translated by George Szirtes,Â features a classic, obsessed Krasznahorkai narrator, a man hired to write (by mistake, by a glitch of fate) the true tale of the last wolf of Extremadura, a barren stretch of Spain.

Satantango

By George Szirtes (trans)

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Hardcover:

9780811217347 | 1 tra edition (New Directions, March 5, 2012), cover price $25.95

Paperback:

9780811220897 | Reprint edition (New Directions, December 10, 2013), cover price $15.95

The Bill: For Palma Vecchio, at Venice

By Laszlo Krasznahorkai and George Szirtes (trans)

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Paperback:

9780956992093 | Univ of Chicago Pr, November 15, 2013, cover price $15.00

The Summer My Father Died

Product Description: Shortlisted for the 2014 Jewish Quarterly Wingate PrizeYudit Kiss grew up a communist in Budapest, soaking up her father's ideology unquestioningly. As a child she is puzzled when others refer to her as Jewish; she only knows that her family doesn't believe in God...read more

By George Szirtes (trans)

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9781846590948 | Telegram, September 10, 2013, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Shortlisted for the 2014 Jewish Quarterly Wingate PrizeYudit Kiss grew up a communist in Budapest, soaking up her father's ideology unquestioningly.

Bad Machine

By George Szirtes

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Paperback:

9781852249571 | Bloodaxe Books Ltd, May 15, 2013, cover price $23.95

9781937679156 | Sheep Meadow Pr, February 12, 2013, cover price $16.00

Portraits of a Marriage

By Sandor Marai and George Szirtes (trans)

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Hardcover:

9781400045013 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, February 22, 2011, cover price $27.95

Paperback:

9781400096671 | Vintage Books, March 6, 2012, cover price $16.95

The Adventures of Sindbad

By Gyula Krudy and George Szirtes (trans)

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9781590174456 | New York Review of Books, November 8, 2011, cover price $14.95

Eyewitness: Hungarian Photography in the Twentieth Century. Brassai, Capa, Kertesz, Moholy-nagy, Munkacsi

Product Description: At a crucial moment between two world wars, in a country destabilized by political turmoil, five men changed the face of photojournalism and art photography, and inspired the world. With their groundbreaking shots, Brassai, Capa, Kertesz, Moholy-Nagy, and Munkasci radically redefined photographic practice and theory, giving rise to iconic images and ushering in the modern era...read more

By George Szirtes

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9781905711765, titled "Eyewitness: Hungarian Photography in the Twentieth Century: Brassai, Capa, Kertesz, Moholy-Nagy, Munkacsi" | Royal Academy of Arts, September 1, 2011, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: At a crucial moment between two world wars, in a country destabilized by political turmoil, five men changed the face of photojournalism and art photography, and inspired the world.

The Burning of the Books and Other Poems

By George Szirtes

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9781852248420 | Bloodaxe Books Ltd, February 15, 2010, cover price $20.95

New and Collected Poems

Product Description: George Szirtes came to Britain as an eight-year-old refugee after the Hungarian uprising in 1956. Educated in England, he trained as a painter, and has always written in English. Haunted by his family's knowledge and experience of war, occupation and the Holocaust, as well as by loss, danger and exile, all of Szirtes' poetry covers universal themes: love, desire and illusion; loyalty and betrayal; history, art and memory; humanity and truth...read more

By George Szirtes

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9781852248130, titled "New & Collected Poems" | Reprint edition (Bloodaxe Books Ltd, February 15, 2009), cover price $37.95 | About this edition: George Szirtes came to Britain as an eight-year-old refugee after the Hungarian uprising in 1956.

Esther's Inheritance

By George Szirtes (trans)

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Hardcover:

9781400045006 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, November 4, 2008, cover price $24.00

Metropole

By George Szirtes (trans)

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9781846590344 | Telegram, October 1, 2008, cover price $14.95

The Rebels

Product Description: An early novel from the great rediscovered Hungarian writer Sándor Márai, The Rebels is a haunting story of a group of alienated boys on the cusp of adult life—and possibly death—during World War I.It is the summer of 1918, and four boys approaching graduation are living in a ghost town bereft of fathers, uncles, and older brothers, who are off fighting at the front...read more

By Sandor Marai and George Szirtes (trans)

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9780375407574 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, March 20, 2007, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: During the summer of 1918, as the senior class at a boy's academy in provincial Hungary prepares for graduation, they live in a ghost town from which all able-bodied men have gone as they confront the reality of war and their own forthcoming involvement in it.

Paperback:

9780375707414 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, March 11, 2008), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: An early novel from the great rediscovered Hungarian writer Sándor Márai, The Rebels is a haunting story of a group of alienated boys on the cusp of adult life—and possibly death—during World War I.

Shadow Behind the Sun: Flight from Kosovo: a Woman's Story

Tells the author's own story, and that of her family, in the context of a deteriorating political environment that led over a number of years to the attempted ethnic cleansing of Kosova. This title also shows the work of the Integration Networks in day to day detail and invites the reader into the world of the Asylum Seeker.

By George Szirtes (foreword by)

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9781905207138 | Dufour Editions, December 15, 2007, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Tells the author's own story, and that of her family, in the context of a deteriorating political environment that led over a number of years to the attempted ethnic cleansing of Kosova.

War & War

By Laszlo Krasznahorkai and George Szirtes

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9780811216098 | New Directions, April 30, 2006, cover price $17.95

Casanova in Bolzano

In 1756, after escaping from Venice's most notorious jail, Giacomo Casanova seeks refuge in the Italian village of Bolzano, where he once again embarks on a campaign of seduction, until the notorious lover meets his match at the hands of the woman who will ultimately defeat him. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

By Sandor Marai and George Szirtes (trans)

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Hardcover:

9780375413377 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, November 1, 2004, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: In 1756, after escaping from Venice's most notorious jail, Giacomo Casanova seeks refuge in the Italian village of Bolzano, where he once again embarks on a campaign of seduction.

Paperback:

9780375712968 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, November 8, 2005), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: In 1756, after escaping from Venice's most notorious jail, Giacomo Casanova seeks refuge in the Italian village of Bolzano, where he once again embarks on a campaign of seduction, until the notorious lover meets his match at the hands of the woman who will ultimately defeat him.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781565119208 | Unabridged edition (Highbridge Co, November 4, 2004), cover price $34.95 | About this edition: In 1756, after escaping from Venice's most notorious jail, Giacomo Casanova seeks refuge in the Italian village of Bolzano, where he once again embarks on a campaign of seduction.

The Night of Akhenaton: Selected Poems

Product Description: Hungarian poetry

By Agnes Nemes Nagy and George Szirtes (trans)

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9781852246419 | Italian edition edition (Bloodaxe Books Ltd, June 15, 2005), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Hungarian poetry

Love and Other Stories

Product Description: First imprisoned in 1919, then in 1934 for translating Andre Gide's diary of his journey to Russia, over twenty years later Tibor Dery was imprisoned again, this time sentenced to nine years for his writings and political activities during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 against Soviet occupation...read more

By Tibor Dery and George Szirtes (introduced by)

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9780811216258 | New England Natural Resources, June 1, 2005, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: First imprisoned in 1919, then in 1934 for translating Andre Gide's diary of his journey to Russia, over twenty years later Tibor Dery was imprisoned again, this time sentenced to nine years for his writings and political activities during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 against Soviet occupation.

Reel

By George Szirtes

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9781852246761 | Bloodaxe Books Ltd, April 15, 2005, cover price $23.95

Leopard V: An Island Of Sound: Hungarian Poetry And Fiction Before And Beyond The Iron Curtain

Product Description: Hungarian literature can be characterized as the literature of anxiety. Throughout the 1900s, as Europe's political and social fortunes changed, Hungary's writers reflected on those changes, absorbing and distilling them in work of documentary, poetic, or comically grotesque power...read more

By George Szirtes

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9781843431862 | Harvill Pr, March 30, 2005, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Hungarian literature can be characterized as the literature of anxiety.

Casanova In Bolzano: A Novel

In 1756, after escaping from Venice's most notorious jail, Giacomo Casanova seeks refuge in the Italian village of Bolzano, where he once again embarks on a campaign of seduction.

By Sandor Marai, Simon Prebble (narrator) and George Szirtes

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9781565119215 | Unabridged edition (Highbridge Co, November 8, 2004), cover price $34.95 | About this edition: In 1756, after escaping from Venice's most notorious jail, Giacomo Casanova seeks refuge in the Italian village of Bolzano, where he once again embarks on a campaign of seduction.

John the Valiant

By Sandor Petofi, John Ridland (trans) and George Szirtes (foreword by)

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Paperback:

9781843910848 | Bilingual edition (Hesperus Pr, April 1, 2004), cover price $17.95

An English Apocalypse

Product Description: George Szirtes' `The Budapest File' (2000) brought together his poems about his Hungarian roots and experiences. This collection presents the poetry he has written from the other side, as an English Hungarian writer who grew up with ambiguous feelings towards his adopted home...read more

By George Szirtes

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9781852245740 | Bloodaxe Books Ltd, June 1, 2002, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: George Szirtes' `The Budapest File' (2000) brought together his poems about his Hungarian roots and experiences.

Ana Maria Pacheco: Slipcased Edition of Dark Night of the Soul, Exercise of Power and an Original Print

Product Description: This special edition consists of two volumes on the art of Ana Maria Pacheco - Ana Maria Pacheco: Dark Night of the Soul by Sanda M. Miller and John Hedgecoe, and Exercise of Power: The Art of Ana Maria Pacheco by George Szirtes - in a slipcased set with Pacheco's signed, original, limited-edition print Hairy Legs of the Queen of Sheba...read more

By George Szirtes

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Hardcover:

9780853318323 | Lund Humphries Pub Ltd, October 28, 2001, cover price $900.00 | About this edition: This special edition consists of two volumes on the art of Ana Maria Pacheco - Ana Maria Pacheco: Dark Night of the Soul by Sanda M.

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