Orgia

Set in Budapest in the winter of 1944–45, in the final days of the Second World War, this novel looks at the Arrow Cross killings from the perpetrators' point of view. It shows what it is like when people kill willingly and with pleasure in the name of an idea, not only on orders. The novel is based on what happened in the Városmajor district, where the militiamen staged mass murders and a priest preached in the nearby church.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

320 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, War (assigned by AI)

Set in

Hungary, 1944–1945

First published

2016 by Kalligram

Author's age

56 when first published

ISBN

9786155603495 (original)