Anna Porter is a journalist, publisher and author. No matter how hard you try, you never get over the place where you were born. Not even when your last memories are of bloodshed and tears. For me, that place is Budapest. I left, much against my will, at the end of 1956. I had tried to resist my mother’s insistence that we escape the Soviet occupation, because my childhood was full of Hungarian stories and I doubted there would ever be other stories to take their place. I returned for the first time in 1970, and have gone back many...