The Hungarian Girl Trap
Paperback, 240 pages
| Price: | $15.48 |
|---|
Ships in 3–5 business days
The Hungarian girl trap is about Hungary. Like Belgium, Hungary is one of those European countries that people can name a few clichés but know little else: goulash, Communism, gypsies, a once great football team – what else?
Ray Dexter didn’t know. Bored and disillusioned with southern English life he moved to Budapest to live with a beautiful Hungarian girl. He thought it was a novel idea, but he found that a lot of other foreigners had had the same idea.
Part travelogue, part diary; by turns funny and furious or thoughtful and reflective, full of wild tales and peppered with historical and philosophical asides, The Hungarian Girl Trap is above a all human story of coping in a country that has leapt on to a capitalist bandwagon but forgot to tell some of the population.
Ray Dexter is a writer and teacher. He has written for The Times Educational Supplement and When Saturday Comes. This is his second book. He now lives in Miskolc, Eastern Hungary.
Ratings & Reviews
Log In to review this item
Review The Hungarian Girl Trap
Lulu Sales Rank: 17929
1 Person Reviewed This Item
"THe Hungarian Girl Trap"
I was particularly interested to read this book because I had traveled to Hungary in the past, and had visited several of the places the author describes. I was keen to read his thoughts on this fascinating country.
And in doing so he gives us an insight into what modern day Hungary, and perhaps more interestingly, modern day Hungarians, are like, in a way that only someone who has actually lived and worked there can do. By turns a travelogue, diary and sociopolitical commentary "The Hungarian Girl Trap" (it is important to realise that this is not a trap FOR Hungarian girls) helps the insular Englishman to understand the mindset of a country that only... More >
I was particularly interested to read this book because I had traveled to Hungary in the past, and had visited several of the places the author describes. I was keen to read his thoughts on this fascinating country.
And in doing so he gives us an insight into what modern day Hungary, and perhaps more interestingly, modern day Hungarians, are like, in a way that only someone who has actually lived and worked there can do. By turns a travelogue, diary and sociopolitical commentary "The Hungarian Girl Trap" (it is important to realise that this is not a trap FOR Hungarian girls) helps the insular Englishman to understand the mindset of a country that only... More >
You Recently Viewed
![[Loading...]](http://static.lulu.com/images/ajax-loader.gif?20120131141155)
