In 1929 no fewer than fifty inhabitants of the Hungarian village of Tiszazug were poisoned with arsenic, ostensibly by female relatives. While focusing on the trials which resulted in several death sentences and more acquittals, Bodo places the entire case within the context of the cultural differences between urban and rural Hungarian societies and the perceptions of and prejudices against peasant culture exhibited during the several trials lasting nearly two years.
- ISBN10 0880334878
- ISBN13 9780880334877
- Publish Date 9 October 2002
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 16 December 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint East European Monographs
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 280
- Language English