Books set in Budapest, Hungary

Hungary — Budapest

2010
The Invisible Bridge
Julie Orringer · novel · 2010
1937–45: a Hungarian Jewish student between Paris and wartime Budapest.
2003
Budapest
Chico Buarque · novel · 2003
A Brazilian ghostwriter lands in Budapest and falls for Hungarian.
1987
The Door
Magda Szabó · novel · 1987
A writer and her secretive housekeeper, over twenty years in Budapest.
1975
Fatelessness
Imre Kertész · novel · 1975
1944: a Budapest teenager is deported to Auschwitz, and comes home.
1941
Portraits of a Marriage
Sándor Márai · novel · 1941
A wealthy Budapest marriage, told in turn by the wife, the husband and the maid.
1926
Anna Édes
Dezső Kosztolányi · novel · 1926
A quiet maid serves a middle-class Budapest family, until one night.
1906
The Paul Street Boys
Ferenc Molnár · children’s · 1906
Two boys’ gangs fight over a vacant lot in Budapest.