· Budapest Noir marks the emergence of an extraordinary new voice in literary crime fiction, Vilmos Kondor. Kondor’s remarkable debut brings this European city to breathtaking life—from the wealthy residential neighborhoods of Buda to the slums of Pest—as it follows crime reporter Zsigmond Gordon’s investigation into the strange death of a beautiful www.doorway.ru: HarperCollins Children's Books. · Budapest Noir: Directed by Éva Gárdos. With Krisztián Kolovratnik, Réka Tenki, János Kulka, Adél Kováts. A murder mystery set in Budapest, /10(K). Budapest Noir marks the emergence of an extraordinary new voice in literary crime fiction, Vilmos Kondor. Kondor’s remarkable debut brings this European city to breathtaking life—from the wealthy residential neighborhoods of Buda to the slums of Pest—as it follows crime reporter Zsigmond Gordon’s investigation into the strange death of a beautiful woman/5(75).
Fresh Meat: Budapest Noir by Vilmos Kondor. By Victoria Janssen Janu. Budapest, October The Conservative Prime Minister is dead. The body of a young Jewish girl is found in a Terézváros doorway. Zsigmond Gordon, a criminal journalist for the Est newspaper, arrives on the scene soon afterwards and starts asking questions, but. Budapest Noir is the first Hungarian noir written by Vilmos Kondor and published by HarperCollins in Hungary in February The novel is about a crime journalist, Zsigmond Gordon, who wants to find the killer of a Jewish girl found dead in Budapest in , and besides the criminal element offers social commentary, political and historical background of Hungary flirting with Fascism. A dark, riveting, and lightning fast novel of murder, intrigue, and political corruption, set in Hungary during the rise of Adolph Hitler and the Nazis in Germany, Budapest Noir marks the emergence of an extraordinary new voice in literary crime fiction, Vilmos Kondor.
Vilmos Kondor was born in in Hungary, he attended university in Szeged and completed his studies in Paris. He graduated in chemical engineering from Sorbonne, then returned to Hungary. Currently he teaches mathematics and physics at a high school. His first novel, Budapest Noir, originally was published in Hungary in Budapest Noir is the first Hungarian noir written by Vilmos Kondor and published by HarperCollins in Hungary in February The novel is about a crime journalist, Zsigmond Gordon, who wants to find the killer of a Jewish girl found dead in Budapest in , and besides the criminal element offers social commentary, political and historical background of Hungary flirting with Fascism. It is also the author's first published novel, and the first of six planned installments of the Budapest Noir series featuring main character crime reporter Zsigmond Gordon. The novel also works well as historical fiction, offering a glimpse into Hungary's political and social issues between the two world wars.
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