When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Rebecca Makkai THE BONE FIRE By Gyorgy Dragoman Translated by Ottilie Mulzet “Maglya,” the ...

THE spectre of communism looms large over this haunting, emotional short-story novel by award-winning Hungarian writer Gyorgy Dragoman. Dragoman tells the story from the perspective of Djata, an ...

Agyness Deyn, Jonathan Pryce and newcomer Lorenzo Allchurch star in this adaptation by Alex Helfrecht and Jorg Tittel of Gyorgy Dragoman's dystopian novel. By Neil Young A very European fable of ...

Some Transylvanians are better known than others. Unhampered by the Hungarian language, composers such as Bartók, Ligeti and Kurtág reached large international audiences. Long before the term ...

The sentences of Hungarian writer Gyorgy Dragoman’s second novel are paragraphs long: sprawling, urgent, spilling with detail. They are the unspoken thoughts of Djata, 11, who has lived alone with his ...

The White King review: Gyorgy Dragoman’s novel arrives in the big-screen courtesy of directors Alex Helfrecht, and Jorg Tittel. The White King review continues below. The White King follows the Fitz ...

RED tire marks line the roads leading up to the extinct Somlo volcano, home to Hungary’s smallest wine region and only a few miles from the worst environmental disaster in the country’s history. It ...

EXCLUSIVE: Film Movement picks up Jonathan Pryce and Agyness Deyn feature. Alex Helfrecht and Jörg Tittel’s dystopian drama The White King has been acquired for US distribution by Film Movement. Based ...

Dragomán draws from his eastern bloc upbringing in this brutal, fragmentary novel. Djata is an 11-year-old boy coming to grips with his father’s abduction and internment at a forced labor camp. His ...

Novel by Romanian author Gyorgy Dragoman that tackles the life of a dissident’s son in an unnamed Communist society. The protagonist, a young boy Djata, battles with life, adolescence and a family ...