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Title details for Strangers in Budapest by Jessica Keener - Available

Strangers in Budapest

A Novel

by Jessica Keener
Amy Landon
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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.

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  • Release date

    November 14, 2017

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781681688664
      • File size: 281615 KB
      • Duration: 09:46:41

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      September 25, 2017
      The second novel from Keener (Night Swim) follows a young American couple as they learn to survive in 1990s Budapest, a city wildly different from their hometown of Stow, Mass. Annie and Will Gordon move to Budapest with their young son Leo so that Will can pursue a business opportunity building communications networks in rural Hungary. Shortly after they arrive, the Gordons’ neighbors back in Massachusetts ask them for a favor: to check on Edward Weiss, an elderly American friend of theirs who is living in Budapest. Annie visits Edward, and she eventually discovers that he has been devastated by the loss of his daughter Deborah and believes that her husband was responsible for her death. Annie agrees to help Edward find his former son-in-law, but the dangers of the city soon threaten her family’s safety. Keener immerses the reader in Budapest’s postcommunist period in all its tumultuous glory. As the Gordons get in over their heads in their new city, the author combines strong characters and a riveting plot to craft a memorable novel.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Amy Landon offers an adept narration of this audiobook, a novel that offers an interesting premise but ultimately gets bogged down in repetition and contradiction. Annie and Will are Americans in 1990s Budapest. The parents of an infant, they also aspire to business success and personal enrichment. However, they're getting weary from doors that are closed to them. Landon creates a lovely balance between the empathetic narrator she is and the distressed protagonists she portrays, her voice shifting gracefully as she maneuvers Annie and Will's personal and professional complexities. Her pacing and dialogue are well considered, and the overall effect is worth a listen. As mysteries arise, the listener is likely to stick with STRANGERS IN BUDAPEST as much for Landon's narration as for the story itself. L.B.F. © AudioFile 2018, Portland, Maine

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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