Great reading that provides a sense of the city, from the Traveler online Ultimate Travel Library.
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Ballad of the Whiskey Robber, by Julian Rubinstein (2004)
“A very accurate and funny taste of what life in Budapest was like in the 1990s.”—Tony Lang, owner, Bestsellers Bookshop, Budapest. True-life crime story of a ice-hockey-playing bank robber in post-communist Hungary.
Castles Burning, by Magda Denes (1997)
Moving memoir of life in Budapest before, during, and after World War II as seen through the eyes of a young Jewish girl.
The Paul Street Boys, by Ferenc Molnár (1907)
“A successful and remarkably enduring fusion of ‘boys' fiction’ naïvetés with eternal verities of loyalty, betrayal, loss, and death in the closely observed and effectively conveyed inner-city milieu of early twentieth-century Budapest.”—Ferenc Takács, English literature professor. A classic novel of Budapest street life.
Under the Frog, by Tibor Fischer (1992)
“Full of humor, no doubt made authentic from the genes of the author’s basketball-playing father.”—Miklós M. Nagy, senior editor, Európa Publishing House. This Booker Prize-finalist novel chronicles the improbable adventures of two Hungarian basketball players during the nation’s chaotic period between the end of World War II and the 1956 anti-Soviet uprising.
Budapest 1900: A Historical Portrait of a City and Its Culture, by John Lukács (1988)
Historian John Lukács’s detailed and affectionate “historical portrait” of his forefathers' world is filled with the author’s personal recollections and family history.
