Broken Worlds

Heliconia - 2026

AMAZON BOOKS - $12.69

https://www.amazon.com/Broken-Worlds-Nobleman-Granddaughter-Hungarian-ebook/dp/B0GHR5L8N6?s=books 

Broken Worlds is a true family history set against the violent transformations of twentieth-century Central Europe. Through the lives of his parents, Zoltán Tömpe reconstructs how two completely different worlds—an old Hungarian noble family and a deeply rooted Jewish rabbinical lineage—were destroyed by war, ideology, and dictatorship, only to meet unexpectedly in the ruins of history. 

After the war in 1945, both young survivors found themselves in a devastated Budapest. Each had lost everything—family members, security, and the world that had shaped their childhood. In a time when such a union would previously have been unthinkable, the son of a Hungarian noble family and the granddaughter of a rabbi met and fell in love. Together they attempted to build a new life from the ruins of war.

Their marriage unfolded in the oppressive environment of communist Hungary. The political atmosphere of the 1950s and the trauma of the past created a family culture of silence. The parents rarely spoke about their origins, their losses, or their experiences during the war.

Growing up during the Kádár era, the author sensed that something essential about his family's past had been deliberately hidden. Only as an adult did he begin to investigate the truth. Over fifteen years of research—through interviews, archives, letters, and historical documents—he gradually reconstructed the lost histories of both sides of his family.

The story ultimately argues that while history can destroy countries, families, and identities, certain things cannot be stolen: memory, faith, and the human capacity to build bridges between worlds once separated by hatred.

A múlt elrablása

KÖNYVPONT 2024

Egy szatmári nemesi család, a Tömpe-család életén keresztül követhetjük Magyarország, ezen belül Szatmár-vármegye és Nagykároly sorsát a 14-21. század között.

Az 1919–1920-as rövidlátó, gyűlölettel és bosszúvággyal teli kirívóan brutális Trianon békeszerződés a legyőzött ellenség megalázására, teljes kifosztására törekszik. Trianon a legsúlyosabban Magyarországot bünteti. Döbbenetes durvasággal szaggatnak szét egy ezeréves országot, egy népet. Közel 3,5 millió magyar kerül elnyomott kisebbségi helyzetbe ellenséges
érzelmű államokban, köztük a Tömpe-család.

LIBRI -   5.605 Ft

https://www.libri.hu/konyv/tompe_zoltan.a-mult-elrablasa.html

KÖNYVPONT   - 5.310 Ft

https://konyvpontkiado.hu/a-mult-elrablasa/

ROXY - 5.310 Ft

https://www.rocky.hu/konyv/tortenelem/magyar-tortenelem/a-mult-elrablasa 

Makoto Kikuchi: Japán csoda japán szemmel

Fordította. Tömpe Zoltán

Műszaki Könyvkiadó 1987

LIBRI   -   1.290 Ft

https://www.libri.hu/konyv/Japan-csoda-japan-szemmel-4.html 

MOLY - 1.240 Ft

https://moly.hu/konyvek/makoto-kikuchi-japan-csoda-japan-szemmel

VINTED - 1.330 Ft

https://www.vinted.hu/items/6320348984-makoto-kikuchi-japan-csoda-japan-szemmel 

ANTIKVÁRIUM - 1.240 Ft

https://www.antikvarium.hu/konyv/makoto-kikuchi-japan-csoda-japan-szemmel-137290-0