Triptych - Large Print by Margit Liesche (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Praise for Triptych... "This is a novel with something for everyone!" -Karen Joy Fowler, NTY bestselling author of The Jane Austen Book Club Budapest, 1956. An uprising against Soviet occupiers is underway. Eleven-year-old Évike and her mother steal deep into battle zones in support of freedom fighters armed only with primitive weapons and desperate courage. Taken in for interrogation, Évike spins a story to deflect attention from her mother's revolutionary activities. This story will alter lives thirty years later. Chicago, 1986. Ildikó Palmay is the American-born daughter of Hungarian refugees. She finds herself drawn to researching her roots. Along the way she uncovers a trail of secrets and betrayals forged in the uprising and discovers the shocking truth about her mother's death. Margit Liesche has written two other novels, Lipstick and Lies and Hollywood Buzz. She lives in San Francisco. www.margitliesche.com

Review Quotes

Liesche (Hollywood Buzz, 2009, etc.), the daughter of Hungarian refugees, cleverly weaves her family's history into a fine mystery that is an ever finer tale about finding one's roots.--Kirkus

...Novelist Libby Havana Lost Fischer Hellmann, who has called this book a beautifully penned, lyrical blend of past and present. She's right about that.--Chicago Tribune

Liesche packs her wide-eyed adventure with tidbits about aeronautics, vintage Hollywood and the war, honoring the underappreciated women who made such a difference.--Kirkus review of Hollywood Buzz

Liesche is a writer to watch--Library Journal review of Lipstick and Lies

A sharply written adventure/mystery debut with a fine feeling for the period.--Kirkus review of Lipstick and Lies

About the Author

The author of LIPSTICK AND LIES and HOLLYWOOD BUZZ, WWII home front mysteries featuring the engaging WASP pilot Pucci Lewis and highly praised for their authenticity, Margit Liesche has appeared on PBS' History Detectives program.

The child of Hungarian missionaries who settled in the U.S. after WWII following years of service in China, she grew up near Chicago and has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for nearly 40 years. Margit's parents' stories about their family's experiences in 1956, told in dark, hushed conversations, filled an impressionable seven-year-old's imagination. These along with Life magazine photographs of carnage in Budapest streets and a visit from an escaped freedom fighter, underpin her new novel, TRIPTYCH.

In recovery from a long career in marketing professional services, Margit now does what she loves: writing, tramping the glorious hills near her home, and frequenting the stacks at her favorite bookstores and libraries.