| An Ermine in Czernopol Contributor(s): Rezzori, Gregor Von (Author), Kehlmann, Daniel (Introduction by), Boehm, Philip (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1590173414 ISBN-13: 9781590173411 Publisher: New York Review of Books OUR PRICE: $17.06 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Family Life - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2011013386 |
| Series: New York Review Books Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5" W x 8.2" (0.90 lbs) 400 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: An NYRB Classics Original Set just after World War I, An Ermine in Czernopol centers on the tragicomic fate of Tildy, an erstwhile officer in the army of the now-defunct Austro-Hungarian Empire, determined to defend the virtue of his cheating sister-in-law at any cost. Rezzori surrounds Tildy with a host of fantastic characters, engaging us in a kaleidoscopic experience of a city where nothing is as it appears--a city of discordant voices, of wild ugliness and heartbreaking disappointment, in which, however, "laughter was everywhere, part of the air we breathed, a crackling tension in the atmosphere, always ready to erupt in showers of sparks or discharge itself in thunderous peals." |