Summer Resort
Kinsky, Esther / Chalmers, Martin Summer Resort, " the first novel by noted translator Esther Kinsky, is set in a village somewhere on the endless Hungarian plain. It is the hottest summer in memory and everyone in the village dreams of the sweet life in udulo, a summer resort on a river. The characters that populate "Summer Resort" tell stories--comic, tragic, or both--of life in rural Hungary. Tales of onion kings and melon pickers, of scrapyards and sugar beet factories, pa...