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Perfect late night reading JAN MORRIS
Bánffy is a born storyteller PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR
Totally absorbing MARTHA KEARNEY
So evocative SIMON JENKINS

An extraordinary portrait of the vanished world of pre-1914 Hungary, They Were Counted is an epic story told through the eyes of two cousins, Count Balint Abady and Count Laszlo Gyeroffy. 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. Abady becomes aware of the plight of a group of Romanian mountain peasants and champions their cause, while Gyeroffy dissipates his resources at the gaming tables, mirroring the decline of the Austro-Hungaria

They Were Counted

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      Publisher Quercus Publishing
      Published 9/26/2024
      ISBN-13 9781529434668
      978-1529434668
      ISBN-10 1529434661
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      Fiction Contemporary Fiction

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Perfect late night reading JAN MORRIS
      Bánffy is a born storyteller PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR
      Totally absorbing MARTHA KEARNEY
      So evocative SIMON JENKINS

      An extraordinary portrait of the vanished world of pre-1914 Hungary, They Were Counted is an epic story told through the eyes of two cousins, Count Balint Abady and Count Laszlo Gyeroffy. 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. Abady becomes aware of the plight of a group of Romanian mountain peasants and champions their cause, while Gyeroffy dissipates his resources at the gaming tables, mirroring the decline of the Austro-Hungaria

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