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New York. 2001. October 2001. Knopf. 1st American Edition. Very Good in

New York. 2001. October 2001. Knopf. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0375407561. Translated from the Hungarian by Carol Brown Janeway. 217 pages. hardcover. Jacket painting by Alexandre Cabanel-Portrait of Countess de Keller, 1873. Jacket design by Susan Carroll. keywords: Literature Hungary Eastern Europe Translated. FROM THE PUBLISHER-The rediscovery of a masterpiece of Central European literature originally published in Budapest in 1942 and known to modern readers until last year. An extraordinary novel about a triangular relationship, about love, friendship, and fidelity; about betrayal, pride, and true nobility. In a castle at the foot of the Carpathian Mountains, an old aristocrat waits to greet the friend he has not seen for forty-one years. In the course of this one night, from dinner until dawn, the two men will fight a duel of words and silences, of stories, of accusations and evasions, that will encompass their entire lives and that of a third person, missing from the candlelit dining hall-the now dead chatelaine of the castle. The last time the three of them sat together was in this room, after a stag hunt in the forest, The year was 1900. No game was shot that day but the reverberations were cataclysmic. And the time of reckoning has finally arrived. Already a great international best-seller, EMBERS is a magnificent addition to world literature in the English language. Sandor Márai was born in Kassa, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in 1900. He rose to fame as one of the leading literary novelists in Hungary in the 1930s. Profoundly antifascist, he survived World War II, but persecution by the Communists drove him from the country in 1948, first to Italy and then to the United States. Mârai committed suicide in San Diego in 1989. He is the author of a significant body of work, which Knopf is translating into English. inventory #30967.