Hungarian Books

Nikola Tesla in Budapest is a journey through a forgotten world of intrigue, invention, and mystery, where the boundaries between historical fact and imaginative fiction blur.

Nikola Tesla's work largely determines our contemporary life. It is enough to think of radio or wireless energy transmission, but we can also mention the solar power plant and the alternating current motor. This special Serbian man is also interesting to us because he lived and worked in Hungary for a while, and even lived as a Hungarian citizen for almost three decades, although within the framework of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy.

András Szepes' book is set in the Hungarian period, but Nikola Tesla in Budapest is not a biographical work, but a novel in which we gain an insight into the operation of secret societies and the secret service

Horror

Social Novel

He's definitely coming home now.

Kinga Maksai's debut psychological thriller plunges readers into a web of mystery and suspicion. Dora and her husband, living a peaceful life with their one-year-old son in a quiet suburban neighborhood of Budapest, never anticipated the nightmare that would unfold one fateful evening. After a company party, her husband fails to return home. Has he left her? Is he hiding a lover? Or has something far more sinister occurred?

As Dora grapples with uncertainty, the tension steadily builds. Her father insists on hiring a private detective, while the police, initially slow to act, begin their investigation. Dora's feelings of isolation grow as she struggles to trust anyone - least of all herself. The creeping fear that something is terribly wrong with her perception of reality forces her to question everything she once believed.

In a psychological journey where every answer leads to more questions, Maksai's novel keeps readers on edge, navigating a maze of deceit, loneliness, and unrelenting suspense. What happened to Dora's husband? And what will the shocking truth reveal in the end? He's definitely coming home now will leave readers captivated until the very last page

Romance

2021. Velence, Fejér County:

A veil of mourning surrounds Adelin Szalai after the loss of his grandfather. But among the nostalgic belongings, he comes across a long-forgotten letter that carries a shocking truth: He is the rightful heir to the Velence Castle. He decides to reveal his family's hidden past, but as soon as he gets off the train, he encounters obstacles. He comes face to face with the charming but surly Count of Velence, who not only stirs up the secrets of the castle, but also Adelin's life.

1890. Velence, Fejér County:

Count Teodor Rosetti lives as a popular womanizer among women, but an unexpected encounter stirs up his world. However, the moment comes in the man's life when he must bow his head to his duty so that the title of count can be inherited. But the count awakens to a secret desire that takes hold of him so fiercely when he meets his bride's companion.

Intertwined lives and passions meet within the castle walls over two centuries. A story of opposites attracting and forbidden passions unfolds that could change the fate of both families forever

Thriller

Zsolt Láng's new novel, The Tale of Men, is an emotional journey that takes us from Paris to Budapest, from Bolivia to a remote Transylvanian village. We follow the adventurous journey of Professor André Tavasz and his son Zsombor, swept by waves of love, guilt, fear, and selfishness

The train passed by the Puskás Ferenc Stadium. Once again, Uncle Laci told him, while he was having lunch at their place, that in the first match, which Rákosi, the bastard, Jewish communist, watched live, the Honvéd team won three to two against Spartak Moscow, but the match had to be finished on time because the lighting was not yet ready. And this filthy pig did not seat the IOC president next to him, saying that he would not sit with an imperialist. And later, the Hungarians did not get the Olympics because of this. Uncle Laci even spat on this.

Tamás has only wonderful memories of the stadium. When the Hungarians won here three to zero against the Brazilians on March 16, 1986, with goals from Détári, Kovács, and Esterházy. Sitting in the pub, he watched the match with the roars of the drunks. And his son would play in this beautiful stadium. The train slowed down and then stopped in front of the tunnel, Tamás took off his suitcase, opened the cabin door, and was ready to get off. The train received the green signal and shuffled into platform number six of the Keleti Railway Station at a slow, leisurely pace

It's 1974, during the great summer heat wave. One night, Mary Pat's teenage daughter, Jules, fails to come home. That same night, a young black boy is found dead, mysteriously run over by a subway train.

The two events seem unrelated, but in Mary Pat's desperate search for her child, she uncovers things she would have been better off leaving unsaid - her questions disturb Marty Butler, the boss of the Irish mob, and his men, who do not welcome the investigation, which threatens their business. And in the background, the city's public school desegregation drive is pulsing and seething, leading to outbreaks of violence.

A sensational thriller, a brutal tableau of crime and power, and a brave portrait of the dark heart of American racism, Small Mercies is a delightful and ruthless book that only Dennis Lehane can write