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Title: I read this years ago -- and it has stayed in my mind all this time
Review: I read this book years ago, when I was a teenager, and the story and images were so powereful that they have remained in my mind all this time. In many ways, Christine was sort of a teenage 'everywoman' thrust into a horrifying and non-sensical world during the siege of Budapest in WWII. I can't imagine going out onto the street because someone has found a dead horse on the road, and needing to act quickly in order to carve up the meat to bring home. I remember her aching crush on the young soldier, Pista. I remember how things suddenly seemed to look better and then one of their neighbors was almost casually gunned down, after having survived so long in their brutal world. Perhaps it was simply that I was the same age as Christine when I read her book, but I have never forgotten this story.
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