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"Budapest Past: The Secret Files of an Eastern European Family During the Cold War" Author: [US] Katie Marton Series: Ideal Country Translation Series
"Budapest Past: The Secret Files of an Eastern European Family During the Cold War" Author: [US] Katie Marton Series: Ideal Country Translation Series
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Introduction · · · · · ·
This book uses 20 years of archives of the Hungarian secret police during the Cold War to reveal a family history and historical profile that has been hidden for decades.
During the Cold War, in Hungary, a part of the Soviet bloc, the secret police tried to fully infiltrate and control Hungary's political life through a huge network of informers. The author's parents were originally famous Hungarian journalists, and their reports were an important source of information for the West to understand Hungary. Therefore, they were regarded as "enemies of the people" and were monitored by the secret police for a long time. They were eventually imprisoned for treason and espionage. After the family moved to the United States, the Hungarian government whimsically tried to recruit them as spies, and the United States also monitored them for several years. The book not only restores the experience and experience of the Marton couple being surrounded by informers, but also their struggle, perseverance, fragility and courage, and also shows their emotional and inner contradictions - mutual betrayal between husband and wife and support in disaster, love and affection between parents and children, and the strength and weakness of human nature, making this book richer, more complex, and flesh and blood.
About the Author · · · · · ·
Kati Marton, a Hungarian-American, immigrated to the United States with her parents when she was young. She has won the highest civil service award from the Hungarian government. She has written six books, including the New York Times bestsellers Hidden Power: The Presidential Marriages That Shaped Our History and The Great Escape.
Mao Junjie was born in Shanghai in 1952. He entered the Chinese Department of Fudan University in 1978 and settled in New York after 1981. His translations include Francis Fukuyama's "The Origins of Political Order" and "Political Order and Political Decay", Orlando Figes' "The Whisperers", and Jack Kerouac's "Girard's Visions".
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