Author: SÁNDOR MÁRAI, CAROL BROWN JANEWAY
Title: Embers
Description: Vintage, 2002. Paperback. Pp: 224. Originally published in 1942 and now rediscovered to international acclaim, this taut and exquisitely structured novel by the Hungarian master Sandor Marai conjures the melancholy glamour of a decaying empire and the disillusioned wisdom of its last heirs. In a secluded woodland castle an old General prepares to receive a rare visitor, a man who was once his closest friend but who he has not seen in forty-one years. Over the ensuing hours host and guest will fight a duel of words and silences, accusations and evasions. They will exhume the memory of their friendship and that of the General`s beautiful, long-dead wife. And they will return to the time the three of them last sat together following a hunt in the nearby forest-a hunt in which no game was taken but during which something was lost forever. Embers is a classic of modern European literature, a work whose poignant evocation of the past also seems like a prophetic glimpse into the moral abyss of the present. ISBN: 9780375707421. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9780375707421
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Title: Embers
Description: Vintage, 2002. Paperback. Pp: 224. Originally published in 1942 and now rediscovered to international acclaim, this taut and exquisitely structured novel by the Hungarian master Sandor Marai conjures the melancholy glamour of a decaying empire and the disillusioned wisdom of its last heirs. In a secluded woodland castle an old General prepares to receive a rare visitor, a man who was once his closest friend but who he has not seen in forty-one years. Over the ensuing hours host and guest will fight a duel of words and silences, accusations and evasions. They will exhume the memory of their friendship and that of the General`s beautiful, long-dead wife. And they will return to the time the three of them last sat together following a hunt in the nearby forest-a hunt in which no game was taken but during which something was lost forever. Embers is a classic of modern European literature, a work whose poignant evocation of the past also seems like a prophetic glimpse into the moral abyss of the present. ISBN: 9780375707421. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9780375707421
Price: EUR 10.00 = appr. US$ 10.87 Seller: De Slegte
- Book number: 96124
- Book number: 96124
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