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Poisoned Pen Press
October 2013
On Sale: October 8, 2013
250 pages
ISBN: 1464201803
EAN: 9781464201806
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Mystery
TRIPTYCH paints portraits of two sets of mothers and
daughters: the first, caught up in the brutalities of
the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, and the second, in 1980s
Chicago, dealing with the lingering effects of the
Revolution and trail of secrets left behind.
Budapest, 1956. A
national uprising against Soviet occupiers and their reign
of terror is underway. Eleven-year-old Evike and her
firebrand mother steal deep into battle zones in support of
civilian freedom fighters, armed only with primitive weapons
and desperate courage, against the heavy artillery of
trained Russian troops. Taken in for interrogation by the
secret police, Evike spins a story to deflect attention from
her mother's revolutionary activities. This story will
irrevocably alter lives and reach its tentacles, 30 years
later, into the life of Ildiko Palmay.
Chicago, 1986. Ildiko, 37, a
librarian and ESL teacher, is the American-born daughter of
Hungarian refugees. Unsettled by her life and her romantic
failures, she finds herself drawn back to her roots, first
to the Hungarian neighborhood of her youth in Chicago--and
eventually to the Russian-occupied city of Budapest. Along
the way, she meets a magnetic man who may not be what he
seems, uncovers a trail of secrets and betrayals forged in
the uprising, and discovers the shocking truth about her
mother's death.
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