![]() ![]() The energy behind this idea fuels This Rebel Heart. “Whoever can protest and does not is responsible for what happens without protest.” Csilla recalls her mother sharing this line from the Talmud, a collection of writings about Jewish theology and law. ![]() Yet when Csilla meets two young men-one a mysterious figure who rescues her from the police, the other a student who asks her for a dangerous favor-her plan to abandon Hungary transforms into a resolution to save it. Together, Csilla and Ilona are plotting to escape Soviet-controlled Hungary. ![]() The secret police watch their every move, their family’s home has been nationalized and subdivided into smaller apartments, and they are constantly surrounded by antisemitism. Now Csilla lives with her aunt, Ilona, her last living relative. Her Jewish family survived the Holocaust only for her parents to be declared enemies of the state and executed four years ago. Set against the backdrop of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, Katherine Locke’s This Rebel Heart is a queer, fabulist novel about a girl navigating her complicated feelings toward the place she calls home-a place where magic and horror live side by side.Ĭsilla Tisza, whose hair is as silver as the Danube River, has lost almost everything. ![]()
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