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“... In November​ 1956, a few weeks after Soviet tanks rolled into Budapest, a 21-year-old Ágota Kristóf and her husband, Janos Béri, decided to leave their home in Kőszeg, in north-west Hungary. Kristóf wasn’t really involved in politics, but Béri, who had taken part in the uprising against Mátyás Rákosi’s Stalinist government, had already been arrested once and, as a known dissident, feared the prison sentence that almost certainly awaited him ...”