BUDAPEST by Victor Sebestyen bills itself as a “Portrait of a City Between East and West” and that is certainly a main contention of Sebestyen as he very effectively outlines centuries of Hungarian and Central European history. My only disappointment in this text (an Economist Best Book of the Year) is that I thought there would be many more pictures, but (in the preview at least) the only one was the beautiful cover showcasing the Parliament. There is a list of less than two dozen illustrations which may appear in the finished book; plus, a thorough index (roughly ten percent of the total pages) accompanies the text which is very clearly a labor of love for native born journalist Sebestyen.
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