Fire Raiser (2009)
Fire Raiser
“School was always easy, although her real education came from the books old György dug out of his vegetable garden after the Communist government fell. Hundreds of books, wrapped in oiled cloth and packed in crates for more than fifty years; books in Hungarian and Russian with leather covers, paperback books in English and French and Italian; novels, history, poetry, myths and legends, plays. She is one of a score of village children who have worked their way through this long-hidden library si...nce its unearthing. Everyone else must work the land. Decades of mismanagement have, incredibly, wreaked less devastation on this country than other former Soviet satellites, but capitalism has been cruel in its own ways and there is as fine a line as ever between survival and starvation.
But she is smart. She is also pretty. The Magyar genetic mix has given her the thick black hair of the steppes nomads, the blue eyes of the Greeks, and the pale complexion of the Slavs and their distant Nordic ancestors.MoreLess
But she is smart. She is also pretty. The Magyar genetic mix has given her the thick black hair of the steppes nomads, the blue eyes of the Greeks, and the pale complexion of the Slavs and their distant Nordic ancestors.MoreLess
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