Hungarian Novel May Be A Global Hit
- 1 Jun 2015 9:00 AM
Publishers from 24 countries have bought the rights to film director Péter Gárdos’s novel Hajnali láz (“Fever at Dawn”) the story of how his parents met and fell in love in 1945. After surviving the Holocaust, Miklós Gárdos was in a Swedish refugee camp when he asked for a list of Hungarian Jewish girls who were also temporarily housed in Sweden.
He wrote to all 117 of them in hope that one would marry him. One who responded was Lili, the author’s mother. After they met in the hospital, they were married three days later in Stockholm.
The book published in Hungary five years ago has now been discovered by the world’s biggest book publishers.
Gárdos told a press briefing on Friday that the novel was first discovered by Australian publisher Text, which is co-operating with British publishers in producing the final English translation and a co-ordinated market campaign.
Gárdos co-wrote and directed a film of the novel last year.
Source: Hungary Around the Clock
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