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Product Description After a perilous journey from Nazi-occupied Prague (described in The Dragontail Buttonhole). the penniless Jewish Kohut family reaches Paris. Willy Kohut, married to the beautiful Sophie, is a dispossessed fabric merchant desperate to join his parents in London. Hoping to find a way out of France, a country preparing for war, Willy signs up to join the re-constituted remains of the Czechoslovak Army based in in the south. Sophie, still in Paris with her 3-year old son Pavel. finds part-time work at the Cafe Budapest, run by an old Hungarian couple. Pavel falls seriously ill at the very moment the German armies invade France. She and Pavel flee south to meet up with Willy, only to be swept up, when the French surrender, in a massive evacuation organized by the British Navy Review On the run from Nazis in Prague, the physically and psychologically traumatized Kohut family arrive safely in the City of Light, just in time for France's entry into WWll. As in Curtis' last novel, The Dragontail Buttonhole, there's a poignant and arresting precision in the descriptions that make events from 80 years in the past feel immediate. Indeed, there's not a wasted word in the smoothly paced text. Readers will find themselves absorbed by the book's gradual building suspense as the characters experience both good fortune and jeopardy. A heart-rending, pellucid story of wartime survival. KIRKUS REVIEWS CAFE BUDAPEST is clever, interesting and eminently readable. This sequel starts with their arrival in refugee-drenched Paris and traces their struggle to find a way to reach safety in England. Jaroslav Boucek. Historian, Military Institute. Prague. WINNER OF THE 2019 NANCY PEARL AWARD FOR HISTORICAL FICTION From the Author I spent 18 years researching the incidents and settings of my novels, all based on my family's story of their odyssey from Nazi-occupied Prague. I have used fiction to enable the reader to get a feel for those fraught times and the personalities of the protagonists. From the Back Cover On the run from the Nazis in Prague, the physically and psychologically traumatized Kohut family arrive safely in the City of Lights, just in time for France's entry into WWll. As in Curtis' last novel, The Dragontail Buttonhole, there's a poignant precision in the descriptions of life at that time that make the events from 80 years ago feel immediate. There's not a wasted word in the smoothly paced text. About the Author Peter Curtis is a retired physician and author. He was a refugee in WWll and grew up in Britain. In 1976, he moved with his family to the United States and worked at the University of North Carolina. He retired in 2000.
