Gold in the Mud: A Hungarian Peasant Novel

Zsigmond Móricz was born in 1879 in the Tiszacsécse region of eastern Hungary to a poor peasant family. Author of over twenty novels and many more novellas and stories, he is most famous for his work Be Faithful Unto Death (Légy jó mindhalálig, 1921), the touching story of a schoolboy growing up in post-WWI Hungary. Móricz died in Budapest in 1942.