![]() ![]() ![]() A word from the new Commissar of the theater can destroy them. Although, they have an apartment in Budapest, although Gaby's husband runs the Lyric Theater, and Gaby herself still can afford an occasional new dress and trip to the beauty parlor, they live in constant fear. Since the war Gaby, her husband, and hated mother-in-law have been living on borrowed time ? and they know it. This enthralling novel will shock you with its immediacy and touch you with its portrait of all-too-human men and women desperately struggling to survive under a totalitarian regime. No one up to now has so vividly presented the lives of ordinary people under Communist rule in the satellite countries. In this, her first novel, she tells what happens to a gay, frivolous woman, born only to give and receive pleasure, under the crushing, implacable Communist regime. In I Am Fifteen - And I Don't Want To Die this beautiful and talented author told the story of her own dramatic experiences in Hungary during and after the war. A suspenseful novel about life in Hungary before the recent rebellion by one who knows what it was really like because she was there. ![]()
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