| Embers Contributor(s): Marai, Sandor (Author) |
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ISBN: 0375707425 ISBN-13: 9780375707421 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $15.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2002 Annotation: 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. 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 together following a hunt in the nearby forest--a hunt in which no game was taken but during which something was lost forever. Embers is a classic of modern European literature, a work whose poignant evocation of the past also seems like a prophetic glimpse into the moral abyss of the present |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Thrillers - Psychological |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2001029864 |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.1" W x 7.9" (0.40 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. 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 together following a hunt in the nearby forest--a hunt in which no game was taken but during which something was lost forever. Embers is a classic of modern European literature, a work whose poignant evocation of the past also seems like a prophetic glimpse into the moral abyss of the present |