Virág 🌸🌱 Books and plants

Happy Sunday!

Two posts two days in a row and both of them are reviews? Who am I really? Today I am here with a very special book, in the past 5 years I've barely read in Hungarian for my own entertainment. Somehow I always read books in English, but this year, I picked up a Hungarian literature again and how glad I am that I did. (Thanks again to my friends who recommended it, one of them this year and one of them many years ago, I got around to it!!)

The book is called Journey by Moonlight in English and it is written by Antal Szerb. It is about Mihály who goes on his honeymoon with his newlywed wife Erzsi, and then due to an accident (let's say that, or fate) they get separated and Mihály ends up travelling in Italy alone instead of trying to find his wife, and he constantly yearns for his youth. He is constantly in his inner battle between returning to his 'normal' adult life or trying ti give in to the adventure and try to get back to his youth.

It felt very fitting reading this book after getting married, and even more so reading it when I myself feel a bit lost in life, debating what it is I want to do and how I want to spend my time. I had completely fallen in love with the way Antal Szerb writes, and his humour is certainly unique, and he writes about strange people, bit it just feels great to follow along. We travelled all over Italy and even had some parts of the story take place in Paris. I can't wait to read more of his books, and I also added some quotes from the book (for which I found the English translation) for some flavour!

What is one book that you'd recommend from your home country, that you think more people should read?