Sandor Marai

• Oct-2001
• / General Fiction
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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 ...

• Nov-2004
• / General Fiction
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Another rediscovered masterpiece from the Hungarian novelist whose Embers became an international bestseller -- a sensuous, suspenseful, aphoristic novel about the world’s most notorious seducer and the encounter that changes him forever. In 1756 G...

• Nov-2004
• / General Fiction
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It is midnight, October 31st 1758 and Giacomo Casanova has escaped from a Venetian prison after sixteen months consigned to darkness and the underworld. Shaking off the enforced solitude, Casanova makes his way to Bolzano - the small village where he...

• Mar-2007
• / Historical
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It is the summer of 1918. As graduation approaches at a boys' academy in provincial Hungary, the senior class finds itself in a ghost town. Fathers, uncles, older brothers--all have been called to the front. Surrounded only by old men, mothers, aunts...

• Nov-2008
• / General Fiction
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What is it to be in love with a pathological liar and fantasist? Esther is, and has been for more than twenty years. Lajos, the liar, married her sister, and when she died, Lajos disappeared. Or did he? And Esther? She was left with her elderly cousi...

• Mar-2011
• / Literary
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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 decor is never...