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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.
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spectator published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010
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Embers
himself was, like Konrad, born into an impoverished branch of aristocracy in dying years of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Life echoed art for Marai: he couldn't stay in a Communist Hungary and left in 1948, ending in San Francisco, a location almost a ... (read full critics)
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- English Books
- Paperback 224 Pages
- Edition: Reprint
- ISBN-10: 0375707425
- ISBN-13: 9780375707421
- Publisher: Vintage
- Pub date: Aug 13, 2002
- Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 65 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Hardcover, Audio CD and Audio Cassette
- In other languages: other languages
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This book is being marketed as a time capsule. First published in Hungary 60 years ago, every copy, its promotional material claims, was destroyed by the communists from whom the author had fled to the West in 1948. It was only in the mid- 1990s, whe ... (read full critics)