Title: Captivity
Description: A literary sensation in Hungary now available in English, György Spiró's masterwork is at once a gripping page-turner, a magisterial historical epic, and a riotous road novel.  Set in the tumultuous first century A.D., Captivity recounts the adventures of Uri, a bookish, hapless young Roman Jew.
Subjects: Fiction, Jews, History, Jerusalem, fiction, Fiction, historical, Hungarian fiction, Historical fiction, First century, A.D., Picaresque literature
Places: Rome
Time periods: Empire, 30 B.C.-284 A.D., 168 B.C.-135 A.D.