Sándor Márai
2) Embers
Author
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Publisher description: 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...
Author
Series
Letras de bolsillo) volume 126
Publisher
Salamandra
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Español
Description
"La búsqueda de la verdad como fuerza liberadora, como soporte ético imprescindible para sobrellevar el transcurso de una vida, está en el centro de esta novela magistral, que tras permanecer en el olvido durante más de cincuenta años fue rescatada por la ..."
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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Description
A rediscovered masterwork from the famed Hungarian novelist Sándor Márai, Portraits of a Marriage is in fact a startling exploration of a triangle of entanglement.
A wealthy couple in bourgeois society, Peter and Ilonka appear to enjoy a fine union. Their home is tastefully decorated; their clothes are well tailored; they move in important circles. And yet, to hypersensitive Ilonka, her choice in décor is never good enough,...
A wealthy couple in bourgeois society, Peter and Ilonka appear to enjoy a fine union. Their home is tastefully decorated; their clothes are well tailored; they move in important circles. And yet, to hypersensitive Ilonka, her choice in décor is never good enough,...
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