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Books set in Budapest

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10 books · 8 authors · 1890–2003

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10 books here
Most-set authors
Péter Nádas (2) · Imre Kertész (2) · Mircea Cartarescu (1) · Chico Buarque (1) · Sándor Márai (1) · Bolesław Prus (1)
Genres
literary fiction (8)

Books set here

Set in Budapest (7)

Blinding
Mircea Cartarescu
Georg arrested and deported from Budapest
Fatelessness
Imre Kertész
Departure and return home
Parallel Stories
Péter Nádas
Budapest — 20th-century Hungary across WWII, Holocaust, and 1956 Revolution
Portraits of a Marriage
Sándor Márai
primary setting
The Doll
Bolesław Prus
1936 crime-scene Budapest
The Door
Magda Szabó
Post-war Budapest street life
Kaddish for an Unborn Child
Imre Kertész
Post-war Budapest narrator home

Also featuring Budapest (3)

A Book of Memories
Péter Nádas
Narrator's adolescence; family history during 1956 uprising
Budapeste
Chico Buarque
Costa alternate life city
The Idiot
Elif Batuman
Hungarian countryside where Selin teaches English in summer

Notable locations in Budapest

Józsefváros, Budapest1

Nearby books

Kaddish for an Unborn Child
Imre Kertész
2 km · Józsefváros, Budapest