Enemies of the People: My Family's Journey to America
"You are opening a Pandora's box," Marton was warned when she filed for her family's secret police fi les in Budapest. But her family history -- during both the Nazi and the Communist periods -- was too full of shadows. The files revealed terrifying truths: secret love aff airs, betrayals inside the family circle, torture and brutalities alongside acts of stunning courage -- and, above all, deep family love. In this true-life thriller, Kati Marton, an accomplished journalist, exposes the...
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In this true-life thriller, Kati Marton draws on her skill as an investigative reporter to discover who her journalist parents really were—-and how they survived the Nazis in Budapest and imprisonment by the Soviets during the Cold War. The New York Times - Alan Furst …a powerful and absolutely absorbing narrative of [Marton's] parents' journey—a series of escapes, from Hitler, from Stalin, eventually to America…has all the magnetism and, yes, the excitement, of the very best spy fiction…in the end, Enemies of the People becomes a treatise on human nature—at its best, at its worst—and Marton is enough of a good journalist, and a good human being, to take that for what it is: applaud the love and the heroism, deplore the cowardice and the cruelty, and go on with life.
