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The short stories in this collection, from the tale of the idle young man dawdlingpleasantly in Venice to the Romanian villager meditating revenge on histormentor, draw on the author's experiences of life, love, sacrifice, betrayal andcourage, and reveal, as a recurring leitmotif, an indomitable will to survive.
Tells about the lives of Balint, with his ultimately unhappy love for Adrienne, and his fatally flawed cousin, Laszlo Gyeroffy, who dies in poverty and neglect.
An extraordinary portrait of the vanished world of pre-1914 Hungary. The second volume of Banffy's trilogy, rediscovered after the fall of communism in Hungary.
Shooting parties in great country houses, turbulent scenes in parliament and the luxury life in Budapest provide the backdrop for this gripping, prescient novel, forming a chilling indictment of upper-class frivolity and political folly, in which good manners cloak indifference and brutality.
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