If You Want To Read A Novel About Transition-Era Budapest, I Humbly Offer Mine

The first English language novel I read that was set in transition-era Budapest was Arthur Phillips' ironically titled narrative Prague, which was, well, not very good. There have been a smattering of other novels focused on transition-era (1989 to roughly 2000) Budapest and Hungary since then. Some are better than others, but very few capture the turbulence and flux of those tempestuous years.

Thirty years have passed since the collapse of communism in Hungary, and its capital city Budapest has transformed into a somewhat trendy tourist hotspot complete with all the positives and negatives that accompany such a development. As interest in the city and country grows, people inevitable seek out stories. With this in mind, I humbly offer you check out my novel The City of Earthly Desire, which documents the darker side of liberalization focusing on subject matter few authors would be willing to explore.