Скачать книгу - Hungarian Rhapsodies

A collection of stories that fuses the sensibilities of Gabriel Garcia Marque, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Henry James and Philip Roth Set in venues as diverse as Israel, Hungary, Paris, Cambridge and, even, Austin, Texas A diverse set of characters, including a narrator who marries a French wife and discovers there is more to a cross-cultural marriage than the cinema suggests and a married older woman who seduces, first, a psychologically fragile adolescent boy and then, in quick succession, his handsome and athletic younger brother. Author is an accomplished poet, translator, nonfiction and fiction writer Author had NEA Fellowship and numerous other literary awards, including the Isabella Gardner Poetry Prize and the Harold U. Ribalow Prize for Fiction, judged by Elie Wiesel and Thomas Keneally

Hana Keller and her family run Maggie's Tea House, an establishment heavily influenced by the family's Hungarian heritage and specializing in a European-style traditional tea service. But one of the shop's largest draws is Hana's eccentric grandmother, Juliana, renowned for her ability to read the future in the leaves at the bottom of customers' cups. Lately, however, her readings have become alarmingly ominous and seemingly related to old Hungarian legends… When a guest is poisoned at a tea event, Juliana's dire predictions appear to have come true. Things are brought to a boil when Hana's beloved Anna Weatherley butterfly teacup, which carried the poisoned tea, becomes the center of the murder investigation. The cup is claimed as evidence by a handsome police detective, and the pretty Tea House is suddenly endangered. Hana and her family must catch the killer to save their business and bring the beautiful Budapest Butterfly back home where it belongs.