Patrick Leigh Fermor and Between the Woods and the Water: on Foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland - The Middle Danube to the Iron Gates is the classic book to read in Eastern Europe.

Fascinating as he meets shepherd, countesses and borrow horses to get most of the way, a real life adventure

unclegus - I think we're used to seeing four-digit years so it's confusing when a two-digit year pops up. I had to tease you about the old thread.

Thats OK,I am just having lots of senor moments these days.

One of the more interesting people of the second half of the 20th century is Václav Havel. A dissident and writer who became President of Czechoslovakia and then the Czech Republic and who engineered the peaceful separation of the two. I guess for his plays try "The Garden Party" and for essays "The Power of the Powerless."

"Hi Woyzeck.... The edition of "Fateless" I just purchased (I bought it in Budapest at CEU) was done by Tim Wilkenson. I wonder when (or why) they changed the name."
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It was my understanding that Wilkenson's new translation included the (apparently) correctly translated title "Fatelessness"

I read that the previous translations were problematic and that Kertész himself protested against them. I believe Wilkenson's translations represent a major improvement.

Interesting, though, that your copy was entitled "Fateless" - no idea how that happened.

and "the good soldier svejk" for a bit of fun

Great suggestions! Bookmarked!!