Sándor Márai
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the author of EMBERS comes another masterpiece: an erotically charged novel about Casanova and the woman who finally defeated him. Sandor Marai, one of the leading Hungarian novelists, begins his story in 1756 when Giacomo Casanova, after having escaped from one of Venice's infamous jails, stops at the Italian village of Bolzano to rest, secure a loan to rebuild his life, and resume his art of seduction. But he's come to this village remembering...
3) Embers
Author
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
In a secluded woodland castle, an old General prepares to receive a rare visitor, a man who was once his closest friend but whom 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...
5) The rebels
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
During the summer of 1918, as the senior class at a boy's academy in provincial Hungary prepares for graduation, they live in a ghost town from which all able-bodied men have gone as they confront the reality of war and their own forthcoming involvement in it.
