{"product_id":"the-huntitng-rug","title":"The Huntitng Rug","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe son of a general in the pre-war Hungarian army, Ádám Topporczy had enjoyed a golden youth. Family estates, Transylvanian maids, a free-and-easy life among the chattering classes of Budapest, an affair with a famous actress, a career pursued without trying\u003cbr\u003etoo hard to catch up – but all come to an end as war approaches. The general resigns in patriotic protest at the links with Nazi Germany, the family shelters a Jewish couple during the German occupation, but is not troubled by the Arrow-Cross. When the communists\u003cbr\u003ecome to power, however, there is no escape from relocation; the villa in Buda is lost as is much of value, and there follow years of survival in primitive rural conditions. Returning to Budapest, Ádám finds the eponymous Hunting Rug in their old house; a gift\u003cbr\u003efrom Jewish neighbours as they vanished in 1944, it becomes central to the narrative, acquiring a life of its own. The rug is eminently conducive to making love, and all those facets of modern Hungarian\u003cbr\u003ehistory are skilfully presented – sometimes illustrated by extracts from official documents -– and the immense intrinsic value of the rug revealed in flashbacks as Ádám engages in amorous\u003cbr\u003edalliance with his new girlfriend. The book – written not long before the 1989 change of regime – ends with a prophetic ironic twist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGábor Görgey (1929), Hungarian playwright, poet and novelist, has published five collections of poetry, six novels, five collections of essays and some two dozen plays. His best known play\u003cbr\u003eKomámasszony, hol a stukker? – translated into English as Jumping the Gun – has had more than 50 performances all over the world. The Hunting Rug (1988) is his first novel to be translated into\u003cbr\u003eEnglish.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBorn in 1937 in the English West Midlands, Bernard Adams was educated at King Edward’s School, Birmingham, and at Pembroke College, Cambridge. In 1991 he retired from teaching to\u003cbr\u003econcentrate on translating Hungarian literature, and lives in Zánka, Hungary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGábor Görgey is a crystal that stands out in the utterly multicoloured kaleidoscope of Hungarian literature. Among idiosyncratic style-artists, breakers of moulds and formal innovators he remains a narrator\u003cbr\u003ewho – in the words of Camus – creates his own universe. Anyone that enters that universe is surrounded by a sparkling blueness and a sweet, languorous perfume, such as rises when we leaf\u003cbr\u003ethrough old photograph albums. \u003cbr\u003eImre Kertész\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gábor Görgey","offers":[{"title":"E-könyv","offer_id":60118786736512,"sku":null,"price":7.01,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0981\/0899\/8016\/files\/termek_cimlapfoto_1c791d97-58cb-42e5-8c70-5f1559f3170a.jpg?v=1793411305","url":"https:\/\/vydavatelstvopublio.sk\/products\/the-huntitng-rug","provider":"Publio","version":"1.0","type":"link"}