Zoltán Csehy

Andrea Tompa

Petra Finy

Dóra Gimesi

Judit Ágnes Kiss

István Lakatos

Eszter Gangl

Judit B Tóth

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Noémi Rebeka Horváth

Sára Harka

Kriszta Kasza

Edina Kertész

Orsolya Ruff

Krisztina Rita Molnár

The inclusive LGBTQ+ fairytale collection that has grabbed headlines across the world!

Powerful princesses that slay giants,
and beautiful princes that find true love.
Heroes come in all shapes and sizes in these tales of old and new.

Celebrating a multitude of ethnicities, genders and sexualities, this sparkling collection of 17 short stories takes new and familiar fairy tales and reimagines them in contemporary and inclusive light.

The collection was originally published in Hungary,where the inclusion of LGBTQ+ characters sparked political controversy. It quickly became an important symbol in the fight for equality and against discrimination in Hungary and enjoyed a vast wave of support both within and outside the country.

“I wish I could have read this book when I was a child.” – Sir Ian McKellen

A Fairytale For Everyone is the winner of an English PEN Translates Award.

A Fairytale for Everyone 

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The Hangman's House narrates the life and times of a Hungarian family in Romania during the 1970s and 80s. These were extraordinary times of oppression, poverty, and hopelessness, and the novel depicts everyday life under the brutal communist dictatorship of Nicolae Ceaușescu, the unnamed 'one-eared hangman' in the novel. He is an omnipresent figure, appearing in portraits, in classrooms and schoolbooks, in the empty food stores, in TV programs, and in obligatory Party demonstrations. He also seems to invade the bodies and minds of the common people, who become cruel to one another during this cruel period of history, just like the dictator. Our narrator is a teenage 'Girl' who observes life through tangled, almost interminable sentences, as she tried to understand why her family is falling apart, why her mother has three jobs, why her father becomes an alcoholic, and why her grandmother dreams of 'Hungarian times'--and most of all, why there is persecution all around. Brutal though the times are, the Girl's narration is far from a mere indictment. It is suffused with love, tenderness and irony. This novel is fundamentally a woman's book; it is written by a woman, with women playing the principal roles in holding together the resilient fabric of society. Evocative of the celebrated wry humor that distinguishes the best of Hungarian literature, The Hangman's House is a tour de force that introduces a brilliant writer to the English-language readership.

The Hangman's House

Andrea Tompa

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