I Kiss Your Hands Many Times

"I Kiss Your Hand Many Times is the sweeping story of Marianne Szegedy-Maszák’s family in pre- and post-World War II Europe, capturing the many ways the struggles of that period shaped her family for years to come. But most of all it is a beautiful love story, charting her parents’ devotion in one of history’s darkest hours." (Arianna Huffington, president and editor-in-chief, the Huffington Post Media Group) "In this panoramic and gripping narrative of a vanished world of great wealth and power, Marianne Szegedy-Maszák restores an important missing chapter of European, Hungarian, and Holocaust history." (Kati Marton, author of Paris: A Love Story and Enemies of the People: My Family’s Journey to America)
"How many times can a heart be broken? Hungarians know, Marianne Szegedy-Maszák’s family more than most. History has broken theirs again and again. This is the story of that violence, told by the daughter of an extraordinary man and extraordinary woman who refused to surrender to it. Every perfectly chosen word is as it happened. So brace yourself. Truth can break hearts, too." (Robert Sam Anson, author of War News: A Young Reporter in Indochina)
"This family memoir is everything you could wish for in the genre: the story of a fascinating family that illuminates the historical time it lived through... Informative and fascinating in every way, [I Kiss Your Hands Many Times] is a great introduction to World War II Hungary and a moving tale of personal relationships in a time of great duress." (Booklist (starred review))