num_pages: 254
description: TRIPTYCH paints portraits of two sets of mothers and daughters: the first caught up in the brutalities of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and the second in 1980s Chicago dealing with the lingering effects of the Revolution and trail of secrets left behind.Budapest 1956. A national uprising against Soviet occupiers and their reign of terror is underway. Eleven-year-old Evike and her firebrand mother steal deep into battle zones in support of civilian freedom fighters armed only with primitive weapons and desperate courage against the heavy artillery of trained Russian troops. Taken in for interrogation by the secret police Evike spins a story to deflect attention from her mother's revolutionary activities. This story will irrevocably alter lives and reach its tentacles 30 years later into the life of Ildiko Palmay.Chicago 1986. Ildiko 37 a librarian and ESL teacher is the American-born daughter of Hungarian refugees. Unsettled by her life and her romantic failures she finds herself drawn back to her roots first to the Hungarian neighborhood of her youth in Chicagoand eventually to the Russian-occupied city of Budapest. Along the way she meets a magnetic man who may not be what he seems uncovers a trail of secrets and betrayals forged in the uprising and discovers the shocking truth about her mother's death.
language: English
title: Triptych
publisher: Poisoned Pen Press