Budapest novel

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I’m going to Budapest and I would like recommendations of books to read in advance that give me a flavour of the culture. Can be current or historically.
Thanks all

I read Csardas by Diane Pearson years ago and enjoyed it. It is the story of two debutante sisters of a Hungarian Jewish family from World War One to the years after World War Two.

Ooh google Tripfiction. They often come on here to answer similar questions

Susan Faludi (well-known US journalist and feminist author) wrote "In the Darkroom", a memoir of her father, a Hungarian Jew who grew up in wartime Budapest, moved to the US and elsewhere, and eventually after the fall of Communism returned to Budapest, and announced he had become a woman after travelling to Thailand for surgery. After a long estrangement she makes several visits to her father in Budapest, and tries to make sense of all the different identities he/she has assumed over the course of his/her life. Obviously the central focus is her father, but his life is intimately linked with 20th century Hungarian history. I found it fascinating.

Also, I think pretty much anything by Magda Szabo would be worth a look.

Goodbye to Budapest: A Novel of the Hungarian Uprising - Margarita Morris has just been released. I haven't read it but is has decent reader reviews.

Thank you @tobee for the shout out.
We went to Budapest and toured the settings of District VIII by Adam LeBor whilst reading the book www.tripfiction.com/a-political-thriller-set-in-budapest/ and on that link there are further books for literary wanderlust. Have a GREAT journey!!!