A guest in my own country a hungarian life amazonde konrad george fremdsprachige bucher wahlen sie ihre cookie einstellungen wir verwenden cookies und ahnliche tools um ihr einkaufserlebnis zu verbessern um unsere dienste anzubieten um zu verstehen wie die kunden unsere dienste nutzen damit wir verbesserungen vornehmen konnen und um werbung anzuzeigen. A guest in my own country book read 11 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers winner of the 2007 national jewish book award in the cate. My feeling was that since i had started out as a hungarian writer i might as well finish as one he writes and while he took up other posts abroad he always returned to hungary in fact . Offering lively descriptions of both his private and public life in budapest new york and berlin konrad reflects insightfully on his role in the hungarian uprising the notion of internal emigration the fate of many writers who like konrad refused to leave the eastern bloc under socialism and other complexities of european identity to read a guest in my own country is to experience . When george konrad was a child of eleven he his sister and two cousins managed to flee to budapest from the hungarian countryside the day before deportations swept through his home town