M I L L I E

by Peter Hargitai

Overview

Eighteen-year-old immigrant Attila (Art) Nagy is pulled out of his college class by law enforcement on trumped up charges involving an American high school girl (Millie). The prospect of his detention and the Vietnam war are not the only obstacles faced by Art and Millie. Art struggles not only with past trauma stemming from a violent revolution and a daring escape from his native country, but also from racism in his adopted country, and within his own family and their obsession with "purity of blood." When his family discovers Millie's secret, all hell breaks loose. And so does the warrior-poet in Attila. Defying his sacrosanct family, country, church, and creed, he'd rather go to hell with this American girl than to heaven with his so-called holy family. Because he would rather be lost than found. And he was lost, really lost in this girl's blue eyes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798341884175
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	02/02/2025
Pages:	250
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.57(d)

About the Author

Peter Hargitai is a poet, novelist and the translator of two iconic works from Hungarian Literature. He is the recipient of the Landon prize from the Academy of American Poets for Attila József’s Perched on Nothing's Branch (1988). The same was listed by Harold Bloom in his The Western Canon: The Books and School of The Ages. For his translation of Antal Szerbs The Traveler, he won the Milan award (1994). His poem “Mother’s Visit #29” was published in 60 Years of American Poetry, with introduction by Robert Penn Warren and preface by Richard Wilbur (Abrams, 1996). He is a recipient of the annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. poetry prize from Miami Gardens (2009). Retiring as a Senior Lecturer from FIU in 2012, he served a three-year term as Poet Laureate of Gulfport (FL). In 2017, his book Daughter of The Revolution was the subject of an award-winning documentary. In 2022, Hargitai was awarded the Pro Cultura Hungarica Medal for his contribution in translating and disseminating Hungarian Literature in a world language. Hargitai has authored over 20 books including Millie, a veiled memoir which he regards as The Portrait of The Artist as a Young ‘Szélhámos’. According to the author, the ‘rogue’ connotation of the Magyar word sale ‘Szélhámos’ fails to appreciate its original meaning of a ‘horse outside its harness’ breaking stride