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“peter hargitai”

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  • Cheetah

    by Hargitai Péter ...
    They call me Cheetah because of my speed. Yesterday I was a fourteen-year-old schoolgirl with dreams of making the Olympics one day. Today I killed a man. I wasn’t born a killer. I had a loving mother and father. It all started in front of the Radio Build ... Read more

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  • Attila & Lyudmila

    by Peter Hargitai ...
    The narrative revolves around a Hungarian refugee who arrives in America after the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. Young Attila struggles to make sense of life as an adolescent, but also within his family who are neither Hungarian nor American, but who seem to live in a separatist community of Hungarian-Americans bottled up in a historical and political time warp. Caught between two worlds, his past ... Read more

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  • Barbarian Phantasy

    by Peter Hargitai ...
    Peter Hargitai’s Barbarian Phantasy explores how extraordinary prophecy can lurk behind ordinary events, in historical times, in the banal, in the bathetic, in illness, in illusion and disillusion. The story traces Attila Nagy’s incredible journey from his old world to the new, from revolutionary Hungary to the United States, from childhood to manhood, from student to husband and father, and, in ... Read more

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  • American Hungarian Trilogy

    by Peter Hargitai ...
    In Book One of Peter Hargitai’s American Hungarian Trilogy, a fourteen-year-old girl called Cheetah fights on the streets of Budapest during the 1956 Hungarian uprising in which her mother is killed and where she kills in turn, loses her father, her dear friends, and is forced to escape the country; in short, history stampedes through her young life forever altering its course. Book Two’s (Attila ... Read more

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  • Mother Tongue

    A Broken Hungarian Love Song

    by Peter Hargitai ...
    American Academy of Poets award-winning poet-translator Peter Hargitai considers the raging, aging child in this highly original collection of poems. His earlier work was listed in Yale critic Harold Bloom's prestigious The Western Canon. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Attila: a Barbarian's Love Story

    A Barbarian's Love Story

    by Peter Hargitai ...
    Reincarnation of Attila the Hun?Does the past decide the future? When East meets West, the clash determines whether Attila becomes the barbarian of history or a modern hero who forges his own destiny. The love of a woman, a woman of his own choosing, can either destroy him and his family or make him a warrior that battles for his own heart.Praise for Peter Hargitai's previous novelAttila: A ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Daughter of the Revolution

    A Novel

    by Peter Hargitai ...
    October 23, 1956For 12 days, countless Hungarian teenagers fought in the bloody Hungarian Revolution against Communist tyranny and overwhelming Soviet armor. They set up tank barricades, tossed Molotov cocktails, and with their confiscated Russian submachine guns made a stand on the streets of Budapest, hoping to hold out until help arrived from the West. But there was no help. Nobody came to ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Attila József Selected Poems

    by Attilla Jozsef ...
    Translated by Peter Hargitai ...
    Award-winning translator Peter Hargitai celebrates 100 years of Attila Jzsef (1905?1937) in this new selection of 100 poems. His previous selection, Perched On Nothing's Branch (1986), enjoyed a remarkable run of five editions and won for him the Academy of American Poets' Landon Translation Award. His translation of Attila Jzsef is listed among the world classics cited by Harold Bloom in The ... Read more

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  • Witch's Island and Other Poems

    by Peter Hargitai ...
    PETER HARGITAIs work, both in scope and in style, remains well outside the pale of current poetic fashion including the McPoems of MFA mills and the lip- tongue- ear literature of hiphop. Influenced by the great Hungarian poet Attila Jzsefs obsession with the eternal mother as a metaphor for all human longing, Hargitai probes the nature of spiritual exile on terms that are neither Freudian nor ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Who Let the Bats Out?

    Twisted Tales from Transylvania

    by Peter Hargitai ...
    In this bat-mad collection of twisted tales, Peter Hargitai lets out all the stops: he is irreverent, funny, and irresistible. Learn about the real Vlad the Impaler and his poor performance on the Hamilton Depression Scale due to Dracula wannabees like Bla Lugosi; goddesses pursuing shepherds hunkering after sheep; straight serpent-like creatures and gay super-heroes; tattooed dragon slayers, ... Read more

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  • 2012

    The Little Horn of Prophecy

    by Peter Hargitai ...
    AMAZING PROPHECY HIDDEN IN NOVEL!By the author who foretold 911 and the Twin Towers meltdown!In all that is banal and bathetic lurks the heroic as in the story of Attila Nagy whose mad forays into time sound the horn of prophecy. The visionary path its author Peter Hargitai cuts into time intersects with Nostradamus famous Epistle and with contemporary history: The great empire of the Antichrist ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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