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Boldog boldogtalan

Boldog boldogtalan

Translated title: Happy Unhappy

Author: János, Háy

Genre: Social Novel

Year: 2024 | Pages: 458 | Origin: HUN | BA Seq Num: 88418

This book features eight billion people, including two history teachers, three actresses, three Hungarian teachers, two psychologists, a librarian from Sátoraljaújhely, and the narrator himself, and of course a bunch of cute little pets. A novel in which stories pass the baton to new stories
Puccs Moszkvában

Puccs Moszkvában

Translated title: Coup in Moscow

Author: Tamás, Frei

Genre: Thriller / Crime

Year: 2023 | Pages: 573 | Origin: HUN | BA Seq Num: 88393

In the near future, with Putin's grip on power slipping, a critical moment approaches. A cargo plane, supposedly carrying vital parts for Russia's stranded aircraft, is heading to Moscow, but it hides something far more dangerous. As the Ukrainian war reaches a bloody stalemate, the world watches with bated breath -only a coup in Moscow could end the conflict.

In this high-stakes thriller, André Calvi returns to confront an international crisis, where the fate of nations hangs in the balance. With intrigue, action, and dangerous secrets, Tamás Frei weaves a gripping tale of political tension, global power struggles, and a race against time that could change the course of history
Bestiák

Bestiák

Translated title: Beasts

Author: Belle, B. E.

Genre: Romance

Year: 2024 | Pages: 0 | Origin: HUN | BA Seq Num: 88382

Romance
Hidegháboru

Hidegháboru

Translated title: Cold War

Author: Ramóna, Orgován

Genre: Romance

Year: 2024 | Pages: 636 | Origin: HUN | BA Seq Num: 88389

Nancy Williams is the epitome of a good girl. At least she was for a while. For the first seventeen years of her life, she was raised under strict parental control, so she routinely rejected any offers and invitations that could lead to even the slightest forbidden event. Instead of parties, she preferred to study, watch series, and criticize the scenes to her girlfriend on the phone.

She chuckled quietly when her class was repeatedly scolded by the teachers, who had not even managed to earn Nancy's respect by her senior year. Then came November of her last year of high school, and on the holy day before Thanksgiving, the new history teacher arrived at the elite walls of St. Elliot High School. Christopher Burns is a teacher fresh out of college, cold and sarcastic, his style best described by his grown-up suit and his jerk comments.

Nancy Williams, a saucy and sometimes disrespectful grad student living with her lawyer mother, finds the man's behavior quite disturbing. Of course, the same can be said the other way around.

So the question is: what happens when you put these two together?
A magyar nemzet biztonsága

A magyar nemzet biztonsága

Translated title: The Security of the Hungarian Nation

Author: Lászlo, Krasznahorkai

Genre: Social Novel

Year: 2025 | Pages: 170 | Origin: HUN | BA Seq Num: 91684

Every butterfly is a moth, but not every moth is a butterfly. All this is revealed in László Krasznahorkai's new book, as well as other important information about the life and death of butterflies. And also how one of the main characters of our novel decides in childhood that he will search for and research butterflies throughout his life.

And why will it be important for the other main character of the novel, an elderly man who soon reveals his identity, to get to know the expert butterfly scientist and ask him, apart from butterflies, what is the most important question in life?

How do the two main characters come close to each other, and how do they become indispensable to each other? So then, The Security of the Hungarian Nation is a novel about a special friendship? That is. The announcement of a farewell? Yes. The unsolvable trap of the origin of life? Yes. Butterflies fly and words rush to fall into the web of characteristic Krasznahorkai sentences: about the happiness of private passions, the reality of the brutal outside world, the laws of natural existence; about the only universe in which butterflies, man, failure and that which can lift us up, condense into a single point
A világ azt akarja, hogy becsapják...

A világ azt akarja, hogy becsapják...

Translated title: The World Wants to Be Fooled...

Author: Houjt, Dyck Van

Genre: Horror

Year: 2024 | Pages: 569 | Origin: HUN | BA Seq Num: 88410

The novel is set in a sci-fi world, but it is not a science fiction story. The presence of parallel worlds, alien races and telepathy only outline the background world, but the novel's arc is primarily built around the human soul.

The story begins with a vision that predicts the destruction of the Earth. The main character is a thinker, full of repressed emotions and often extremely volatile emotions.

He seeks happiness in a world of lies, full of self-deception, where pure intentions and goodness are considered deviance. In a multiverse of violence, the opportunity to redeem the human race falls into his hands, but in order to fulfill his destiny, he must first renounce his own humanity
Szerelem, Santa Barbara

Szerelem, Santa Barbara

Translated title: Love, Santa Barbara

Author: Paál, Viktória

Genre: Romance

Year: 2022 | Pages: 264 | Origin: HUN | BA Seq Num: 82935

Romantic novel
Szívzavar

Szívzavar

Translated title: Heart Disorder

Author: Szabics, Adrienn

Genre: Romance

Year: 2022 | Pages: 368 | Origin: HUN | BA Seq Num: 82932

Romantic novel
Gyerekkorunk legszebb nyara

Gyerekkorunk legszebb nyara

Translated title: The Most Beautiful Summer of Our Childhood

Author: Ádám, Berta

Genre: Short Stories

Year: 2024 | Pages: 0 | Origin: HUN | BA Seq Num: 88412

Short Stories
Márciusi napló

Márciusi napló

Translated title: March Diary

Author: Janka, Fábián

Genre: Social Novel

Year: 2024 | Pages: 0 | Origin: HUN | BA Seq Num: 88417

Social Novel

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