by Miklos Banffy (Author), Miklos Banffy (Author), Patrick Thursfield (Translator), Kathy Banffy-Jelen (Translator)
In the foreground the lives of Balint, with his ultimately unhappy love for Adrienne, and his fatally flawed cousin, Laszlo Gyeroffy, who dies in poverty and neglect, are told with humour and a bitter-sweet nostalgia for a paradise lost through folly. The sinister and fast moving events in Montenegro, the Balkan wars, the apparent encirclement of Germany and Austria-Hungary by Britain, France and Russia, and finally the assassination of Franz Ferdinand all lead inexorably to the youth of Hungary marching off to their death and the dismemberment of their country.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 368
Edition: 3rd Revised edition
Publisher: Arcadia Books
Published: 15 Sep 2016
ISBN 10: 191005092X
ISBN 13: 9781910050927
Book Overview: W 2002 Weidenfeld Translation Prize