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I love the title. And the cover photograph. But that's not all. Budapest is palpable.
The first section sets the book up nicely, lands you in Budapest with a Hungarian composer who's come back for the first time in four decades for a performance of his final opera. The second section is the hardest to digest, about an African-American soldier stationed near Budapest for whom this military is no more than the definition of slavery with Stalinist overtones--and I fear it' ...more
I love the title. And the cover photograph. But that's not all. Budapest is palpable.
The first section sets the book up nicely, lands you in Budapest with a Hungarian composer who's come back for the first time in four decades for a performance of his final opera. The second section is the hardest to digest, about an African-American soldier stationed near Budapest for whom this military is no more than the definition of slavery with Stalinist overtones--and I fear it' ...more
