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THE RELUCTANT ADVENTURER
by Thomas Rejto
Select Reviews
...of the expanded English edition...
"Originally published in 1958, this recently translated long-lost novel centers on four young Hungarian circa 1940 whose whimsical lives become horrific as the Nazis invade. Rejto writes in a voice that is warm and knowing. A wonderful read."
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S.K, Details Magazine.
"First rate geniuses appear on the scene:
Rejto knew George Soros, seldom if ever fictionalized so far, and he knew the
great mathematician John Kemeny, president of Dartmouth. Best described,
however, is Tamas, the No. 1 hero and author of the novel himselfS a slightly
modernized folk hero!! There is a folk epic quality which gives the novel an
outstanding aura: it does not follow clichés, it is like a free flow of short
stories that flood the novel and give the reader no time to pause."
-Central European University Press
"Fascinating!"
-Peter Medak, director (The Ruling Class, Romeo is Bleeding)
"It is an impressive and admirable story..."
-Michael Korda, author (Charmed Lives: A Family Romance)
"A great read -- the kind of book that stays with you. This terrifying war-time
tale is told though the eyes of a narrator too young and full of
life to be terrified. The Reluctant Adventurer is a story of love, friendship,
and adventure; it is warm and humorous and informative and just
a bit magical.... not unlike the work of Gabriel Garcia Marquez."
-Joan Schweighardt, Greycore Press
"This is a remarkable story of growing up
in prewar Europe and survival told with humor and humility."
-David Goldbeck, Ceres Press
...of the original French edition...
“ The Reluctant Adventurer is a great book
because it filled with humor… It’s in the same class as Charlie Chaplin, Gil Blas and Malaparte. What good company!”
-Pierre Desgraupes; Lectures Pour Tous
"Your book [is] of a macabre humor, and lacking in bitterness, which is exactly
what a book on the subject requires."
-Arthur Koestler, author (Darkness at Noon) from a letter to the author
"Astounding! Youth, recklessness, audacity, anguish and friendship without a
dull page from beginning to end!"
-A. Ferbert, Arts
"An endearing novel in which comedy always keeps company with tragedy."
-Gilbert Ganne, L¹Aurore
"In this novel, where the horrors of war and labor camps wreak havoc, the
joyful spirit of youth is triumphant."
-Combat
"A picaresque autobiography. Love, dearth and fantasy.”
-Gilbert Guilleminot; Paris Presse
“Survivors should be entitled to laughter and happiness once
they have buried their dead and said their prayers. The fact that your book
propels this notion is what makes me love it so much.”
-Joseph Kessel; Académie
Francaise – from a letter to the author