Csardas

by Diane Pearson

Series: Csardas

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CSARDAS - taken from the name of the Hungarian national dance - follows the fortunes of the enchanting Ferenc sisters from their glittering beginnings in aristocratic Hungary, through the traumas of two World Wars. From the dazzling elegance of coming-out balls, feudal estates and a culture steeped in romance, to terror and starvation in the concentration camps - no story could be more dramatic than that of Eva and Amalia Ferenc, whose fate it is to be debutantes when the shot which killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo plunged Europe into the First World War. Their story is enthralling, tragic, romantic - and absolutely unputdownable.… (more)

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Already have read this book so I have 2 editions here on Goodreads. I did not know that was possible? I like it though. One with my review and how much I loved it and this one which is an ebook version because I am going to read it again.

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Read this book many many years ago, translated in Dutch. It was one of my favorite books back then and I want to re-read but this time in English. (

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To Nicholas Vilag, dear friend, who insired and encouraged me to write this book.

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It was generallly agreed that the Ferene sisters were the prettiest girls in the town.

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CSARDAS - taken from the name of the Hungarian national dance - follows the fortunes of the enchanting Ferenc sisters from their glittering beginnings in aristocratic Hungary, through the traumas of two World Wars. From the dazzling elegance of coming-out balls, feudal estates and a culture steeped in romance, to terror and starvation in the concentration camps - no story could be more dramatic than that of Eva and Amalia Ferenc, whose fate it is to be debutantes when the shot which killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo plunged Europe into the First World War. Their story is enthralling, tragic, romantic - and absolutely unputdownable.

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A saga about two Hungarian sisters whose lives are shattered by the First World War.

It is 1914, and the enchanting Ferenc sisters dance and picnic their pampered lives away amongst the ballrooms and mountains of rural Hungary. Then the beautiful bubble of their frivolous world bursts for ever, and they enter the years of tumult, revolution, tragedy and adventure.

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