The Book of Mordechai and Lazarus are the first and the second
novels by Hungarian writer Gabor Schein. Published together in one
volume, they comprise the first in Seagull Books's new Hungarian
List series. Both novels trace the legacy of the Holocaust in
Hungary. The Book of Mordechai tells the story of three generations
in a Hungarian Jewish family, interwoven with the biblical
narrative of Esther. Lazarus relates the relationship between a
son, growing up in the in the final decades of late-communist
Hungary, and his father, who survived the depredations of Hungarian
fascists during the Second World War. Mordechai is an act of
recovery an attempt to seize a coherent story from a historical
maelstrom. By contrast, Lazarus, like Kafka's unsent letter to his
own father, is an act of defiance. Against his father's wish to
never be the subject of his son's writing, the narrator goes on to
place his father at the center of his story. Together, both novels
speak to a contemporary Hungarian society which remains all too
silent towards the crimes of the past.
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