The Yellow Rose

Audiobook

English language

Published by Classic Tales Audiobooks.

5 stars (2 reviews)

Only one yellow rose bush exists in the whole of the Hungarian Plain known as the Hortobágy, and its flowers are only given by the maiden who runs the Hortobágy Inn. But when she has a lover’s spat with her betrothed, and remembers a recipe for love she learned from a gypsy woman, how could she know that she would poison her beloved?

Maurus Jokai (Jokai Mór), one of Hungary’s greatest writers, spins a romantic yarn of Hungary’s horse culture. Narrator BJ Harrison gives the book all the narrative elements of an American Western. The result is a rich, immersive audiobook experience in a world of cattle, culture, and romance.

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This Hungarian "Western" is a Satisfying Read

5 stars

This charmingly dark tale takes place in the Hungarian plains and involves a tragic love triangle between two cowboys - a cow herd and a horse wrangler.. There is a lot to enjoy about this translated story. The setting is unique and nothing like what I expected Hungary to be like. I went to Wikipedia and learned a great deal about a part of the world I'll never visit. The love triangle is intriguing and mysterious. It portrays the Hungarian cowboy as intensely emotional yet restrained in verbal expression of those feelings. The ending of the story, although never in doubt, is still jarring.

The audiobook is narrated by BJ Harrison who has visited the Hungarian plain. He brings it alive as a character and its emotions overlie the entire narrative. His voicing of the cowboys and their songs is masterful. We understand the emotions of the cowboys through his …

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Subjects

  • Hungary
  • Cowboys
  • Romance