Book Description
When disaster befalls her best friend, Karina feels compelled to question the very foundations of her existence. Born in Britain to Hungarian parents who were refugees from the 1956 Revolution, Karina - like so many children of immigrants - grew up with no knowledge of her parents' language, country or long-buried traumas. Now she's married to Julian, a very English husband who wants to pack their son off to boarding school as soon as possible. Karina feels she belongs in neither one world nor the other.
But Rohan, a fellow musician who may or may not be her soulmate, encourages her to delve into her Hungarian family background and her Gypsy ancestry. Her discoveries - about them, Rohan and ultimately herself - will change her life forever.
Past and present collide in the intertwining stories of Karina and her grandmother, the celebrated violinist Mimi Rácz. Love and loss, displacement and continuity mingle in a moving panorama that spans eighty years.
HUNGARIAN DANCES is a love story, a mystery and a tale of extraordinary personal transformation.
