The premise for the unsnappily titled Preparations to be Together for an Unknown Period of Time is this: a Hungarian neurosurgeon meets a fellow Hungarian neurosurgeon at a medical conference, falls in love, and gives up her shiny life and career in America to be with him in Budapest. They had agreed to meet on one of the city’s bridges.
Deborah Ross
Spellbinding: Preparations to be Together for an Unknown Period of Time reviewed
Ignore the unsnappy title – this gripping, simmering, sometimes mysterious Hungarian noir is hypnotic
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