Art expert Helena Marsh flies to Budapest to buy back a Titian painting for the wealthy octogenarian Geza Marton. There are multiple bidders for the painting, including some dangerous Slavs. Soon there are also dead bodies, and a complicated history that leads Helena to men Marton knew in Vorkuta, one of Stalin's notorious gulags.

"Set in contemporary times, Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming tells the story of a Prince Myshkin-like figure, Baron Bela Wenckheim, who decides to return at the end of his life to the provincial Hungarian town of his birth. Having escaped from his many casino debts in Buenos Aires, where he was living in exile, he wishes to be reunited with his high school sweetheart Marika. What follows is an endless storm of gossip, con men, and local politicians, vividly...

An obese nurse in the terminal ward of a Budapest hospital spends her working hours staring blankly at a wall of cardiac monitors, assisting doctors when they try to revive those whose hearts give out, and changing adult diapers. She can only find escape from the monotony of her job, the overexposure to death, and a deprecating husband at home by retreating into her childhood, by searching for her friend Adrienn Pal.

A story of one woman's friendship, betrayal, romance and survival set in wartime Europe.

Deep in the Hungarian woods, the sacred magic of King Solomon lives on in his descendants. Gathering under the midnight stars, they perform small miracles and none are more gifted than the great Rabbi Isaac and his three daughters. But darkness is creeping across Europe, threatening the lives of every Jewish person in every village. Each sister will have to make an impossible choice in an effort to survive -- and change the fate of their family forever....

Selin is the luckiest person in her family: the only one who was born in America and got to go to Harvard. Now it's sophomore year, 1996, and Selin knows she has to make it count. The first order of business: to figure out the meaning of everything that happened over the summer. Why did Selin's elusive crush, Ivan, find her that job in the Hungarian countryside? What was up with all those other people in the Hungarian countryside? Why is Ivan's weird...