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I Kiss Your Hand Many Times is the sweeping story of Marianne Szegedy-Maszak's family in pre- and post-World War II Europe, capturing the many ways the struggles of that period shaped her family for years to come. But most of all it is a beautiful love story, charting her parents' devotion in one of history's darkest hours. --Arianna Huffington, president and editor-in-chief, the Huffington Post Media Group<br> <br> In this panoramic and gripping narrative of a vanished world of great wealth and power, Marianne Szegedy-Maszak restores an important missing chapter of European, Hungarian, and Holocaust history. --Kati Marton, author of Paris: A Love Story and Enemies of the People: My Family's Journey to America<br> <br> How many times can a heart be broken? Hungarians know, Marianne Szegedy-Maszak's family more than most. History has broken theirs again and again. This is the story of that violence, told by the daughter of an extraordinary man and extraordinary woman who refused to surrender to it. Every perfectly chosen word is as it happened. So brace yourself. Truth can break hearts, too. --Robert Sam Anson, author of War News: A Young Reporter in Indochina <br><br><br> From the Hardcover edition.

I Kiss Your Hand Many Times is the sweeping story of Marianne Szegedy-Maszak's family in pre- and post-World War II Europe, capturing the many ways the struggles of that period shaped her family for years to come. But most of all it is a beautiful love story, charting her parents' devotion in one of history's darkest hours. --Arianna Huffington, president and editor-in-chief, the Huffington Post Media Group<br> <br> In this panoramic and gripping narrative of a vanished world of great wealth and power, Marianne Szegedy-Maszak restores an important missing chapter of European, Hungarian, and Holocaust history. --Kati Marton, author of Paris: A Love Story and Enemies of the People: My Family's Journey to America

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Marianne Szegedy-Maszak is a journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, The New Republic, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and Psychology Today, among others. She has worked as a reporter at the New York Post, an editor at Congressional Quarterly, a professor of journalism at American University, and as a senior writer at U.S. News & World Report. She has won the awards for her journalism from the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, the National Mental Health Association, and the American Psychoanalytic Association. The recipient of a Pulitzer Traveling fellowship and the Alicia Patterson Foundation fellowship, Szegedy-Maszak has been an officer on the boards of the Center for Public Integrity and the Fund for Independence in Journalism. This is her first book.

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