Bøker av Helen Fogarassy

About the author:Helen Fogarassy is an internationalist writer by birth and experience. She was born in Hungary, raised in the American Midwest, and has been a New Yorker all her adult life. Work with the United Nations and all facets of her community has led her to advocate a broad world view to enrich the quality of American life. Now as human challenges grow global, she aims to ease the daunting task of communicating across cultures.About the Book:An easy-going American and an intense Hungarian are a mature couple who get engaged just as the Iron Curtain falls in 1989. Army vet Arnie Smith considers it great news, but refugee immigrant Julia Kertesz is swept with a cascade of raw hurts. As the two work through their differing views about that period in history, current family crises push them into deeper conflict until a revived trauma signals the end. The novel is based on a memoir written by the author's mother after the family's 1956 escape from Communist Hungary. The memoir was entitled "Behind God's Back," the way Eastern Europeans felt under Soviet domination after the horrors of the Second World War. When first published, the events in the novel were considered too brutal for American readers. Recent unfortunate atrocities no doubt have toughened America to face global truths without borders.¿

America has had a wild ride in the first two decades of the 21st Century. The period began with Y2K hysteria, fears about the digital leap from 1999 to 2000. The change occurred with few disruptions and yet two years later a terrorist attack on America shook the world. America rebounded from that outside assault and yet the shock was greater 20 years later when the beacon of democracy was attacked by its own people. The culprits behind the attempted coup were hate speech and white supremacy as spread by the social media and led by the US president. Written in real-time, these articles reflect the American spirit as the country emerged from self--complacency to an uneasy suspicion that it had more in common with the global world than seemed apparent.¿