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Strangers in Budapest: A Novel
Written by Jessica Keener
Narrated by Amy Landon
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
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Budapest is a city of secrets, a place where everything is opaque and nothing is as it seems. It is to this enigmatic city that a young American couple, Annie and Will, move with their infant son, shortly after the fall of the Communist regime. Annie hopes to escape the ghosts from her past; Will wants to take his chance as an entrepreneur in Hungary's newly developing economy.
But only a few months after moving there, they receive a secretive request from friends in the US to check up on an elderly stranger who also has recently arrived in Budapest. When they realize that his sole purpose for coming there is to exact revenge on a man who he is convinced seduced and then murdered his daughter, Will insists they have nothing to do with him. Annie, however, unable to resist anyone she feels may need her help, soon finds herself enmeshed in the old man's plan, caught up in a scheme that will end with death.
Keener has written a transporting novel about a couple trying to make a new life in a foreign land, only to find themselves drawn into a cultural, and generational, vendetta.
But only a few months after moving there, they receive a secretive request from friends in the US to check up on an elderly stranger who also has recently arrived in Budapest. When they realize that his sole purpose for coming there is to exact revenge on a man who he is convinced seduced and then murdered his daughter, Will insists they have nothing to do with him. Annie, however, unable to resist anyone she feels may need her help, soon finds herself enmeshed in the old man's plan, caught up in a scheme that will end with death.
Keener has written a transporting novel about a couple trying to make a new life in a foreign land, only to find themselves drawn into a cultural, and generational, vendetta.
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5A better ending. Build up good but to nothing much. Far too predictable.
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5After adopting a child, Annie and Will move to Budapest, interested in entrepreneurial opportunities. When a friend from the US asks them to check in on Mr. Weiss, an elderly man using their apartment, Annie finds herself embroiled in his story. Mr. Weiss daughter recently died and he is tracking down his son-in-law, adamant that he killed her.This book was a bit slow to get started. The first half of the book really introduced the characters and the landscape of Budapest. I did find Budapest fascinating, which is why I kept reading. The characters themselves were very lacking. Annie was extremely paranoid about her adoption, and the official who coordinated it. Mr. Weiss seemed very stereotypical and lacked dimension. Overall not a book I would re-read or recommend.