Enemies of the People: My Family's Journey to America
"A true story that is deeply moving and altogether amazing. It is a mystery story, a love story, and a walk through history."-- BARBARA WALTERS"Kati Marton'sEnemies of the Peopleis a riveting moral tale of Communist terror and human courage that will help the reader better understand a period in European history that must be remembered."-- ELIE WIESEL"Kati Marton's powerful and unsparing memoir is one of the great new testimonies from the Cold War era, candidly relating a version of Arthur Koestler'sDarkness at Noonas lived by one of the daughters of the resisters. I will never forget this book and neither will you."-- SEAN WILENTZ, AUTHOR OFTHE RISE OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY"This is an honest, bracing, unforgettable story that will change the way readers think about the middle of the 20th century in Europe. For all of what we know of places like Hungary in the Stalinist period, we know nothing until we feel it, and here we do, finally and profoundly."-- STEVE COLL, AUTHOR OFGHOST WARSANDTHE BIN LADENS"It is the rare page-turner and thriller that comes in the form of a family memoir. By sharing her family's improbable journey, Kati Marton has left her readers moved and changed, with a renewed appreciation for the freedoms -- and the family -- we cherish."-- SAMANTHA POWER, AUTHOR OFA PROBLEM FROM HELLANDCHASING THE FLAME"Kati Marton has written a candid and courageous book about a chapter in her parents' lives that most daughters would have preferred to leave unexamined."-- LOUIS BEGLEY, AUTHOR OFMATTERS OF HONORANDWARTIME LIES