Title: this not a translation from hungarian
Product review: I find it shameful that this book is not translated from the original Hungarian, but that it is a translation of a German translation (I dont know about the Penguin edition - I wonder). Of course presses save money by hiring translators of more common languages (competition drives translation prices down, therefore a translator from GErman might cost less than one from Hungarian). However, I would think that an author of this statue would deserve an original translation, and that a press of this caliber (Random House) would have the honesty to hire a Hungarian translator. I can't believe that in the entire English speaking world there would not be qualified writers to do it. In all other languages, the translation is direct from the original(and, in the case of Spanish, beautifully I must say). What we are reading here has little to do with the original: this is cheating for the sake of profit. It's shabby.
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