My Books
You can find my books in major bookstores and on their online platforms.
If you’d rather listen to stories from my time in the U.S., China, or Senegal – or read reviews of the books – just scroll to the bottom of the page and click the links.
Túró Rudi with Chopsticks (in Hungarian)
What is China like today?
What does it feel like to live in a place where you can’t even read the signs or the menu at first?
What does this Far Eastern country hold for a Hungarian woman?
Beijing doesn’t exactly welcome the protagonist with open arms. She follows her husband to the Chinese capital, only to be met with overwhelming smog, a twenty-million-strong metropolis, and bewilderingly unfamiliar customs.
The prolonged culture shock and this distant world, however, offer unexpected opportunities:
she not only discovers Beijing’s many colorful faces – its red-lanterned restaurants, its centuries-old narrow streets and hidden Buddhist temples – but also begins to find answers to questions she’s been asking about her own life, present, and future.
As she steps far outside her comfort zone, she’s pushed to redefine her own limits – and in this unfamiliar world, free of ingrained expectations, she finally comes face to face with herself.
America! Will You Wave Back? (in Hungarian)
Dear reader, what you’re holding is no ordinary travel book.
It blends vivid travel writing with the emotional and professional journey of a young Hungarian woman trying to find her way across the ocean, in the United States.
In her early thirties, the protagonist feels she’s experimented enough with life and herself. Now she’s searching for a sense of balance – in work, in love, and in her future.
She’s walked pilgrim routes, stayed in monasteries, dabbled in esoteric card readings, and tried to tune into the fertile currents of the Universe.
Yet through it all, she’s remained practical and down-to-earth – it’s just that luck seems to have eluded her.
Or has it?
The story begins as she sets off for America, heading toward a man around her age whom she met through an online dating site in Budapest.
They got along well at home, and the man invited her to his country – but for now, she isn’t sure whether what she’s looking for truly awaits her across the ocean: a job, a relationship, a future.
— Rita Abody
Book Reviews (in Hungarian)
Amerika! Visszaintegetsz? – kritika a Smokingbarrels blog írójától
Túró Rudi pálcikával – kritika a Smokingbarrels blog írójától
Interviews (in Hungarian)
Nyíregyházi Televízió – Feketén – fehéren
Kölcsey TV Nyíregyháza – Amerika! Visszaintegetsz?
Kossuth Rádió – Közelről
Civil Rádió – Talizmán