But mostly, it's the story of a young Jewish girl in Communist Hungary who digs deep down within herself to gain the courage to fight for the country she loves. How the secrets of the dead can be revealed at difficult times but also can give someone the hope that is desperately needed. How a beautiful stranger shows himself to be the angel of death. How the color is leached from not only the country but the people. There are metaphors throughout this engaging story. She also loves the river that speaks to her. She longs to break away from the crushing power of the Russian control of her country. She lives a complacent life with her aunt, a survivor of Auschwitz, counting down the days until they can flee the country. Based on a true event, readers are transported to 1950s Budapest and meet Csilla. With queer representation, fabulist elements, and a pivotal but little-known historical moment, This Rebel Heart is Katherine Locke's tour de force.What worked: Lyrical, heartbreaking historical where magic and reality merge. As the protests in other countries spur talk of a larger revolution in Hungary, Csilla must decide if she believes in the promise and magic of her deeply flawed country enough to risk her life to help save it, or if she should let it burn to the ground.
But her carefully laid plans fall to pieces when her parents are unexpectedly, publicly exonerated. Now Csilla keeps her head down, planning her escape from this country that has never loved her the way she loves it.
Before Csilla knew things about her father's legacy that she wishes she could forget. Before her parents were murdered by the Soviet police. But that was before the Communists seized power. During WWII, the river kept her family safe when they needed it most-safe from the Holocaust. In the middle of Budapest, there is a river. “A haunting, beautiful read that centers queer Jewish characters.” -BuzzFeed A tumultuous tale of the student-led 1956 Hungarian revolution-and an all too timely look at the impact of Communism and the USSR in Eastern Europe-set in a fabulist, colorless post-WWII Budapest from Sydney Taylor Honor winner Katherine Locke.
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