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Apenas unos meses antes del final de la Primera Guerra Mundial, cuatro jóvenes acaban sus estudios y se enfrentan al último verano de la adolescencia. En cuestión de semanas serán llamados a filas y enviados al frente, un frente del cual sólo llegan noticias nefastas. Así, unidos por su aversión a lo que promete ofrecerles la madurez, Tibor, Ábel, Erno y Béla crean un universo particular y juegan a desafiar todas las reglas: beben y fuman en exceso, juegan a las cartas, se inventan extravagantes historias, cometen pequeños hurtos... Ante la ausencia de padres, tíos y hermanos mayores, realizan su propio aprendizaje de la vida libres del control familiar, hasta que la aparición de un improvisado mentor, un avieso actor que está de paso en la ciudad, hará que sus juegos, y sus vidas, se precipiten por caminos insospechados que los llevarán hacia un dramático desenlace. Sándor Márai publicó esta novela cuando tenía treinta años y acababa de regresar a Hungría. Aunque ya era conocido como

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The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time. 'Wonderful. Immensely moving' Daily TelegraphAs darkness settles on a forgotten castle at the foot of the Carpathian mountains, two men sit down to a final meal together. They have not seen one another in forty-one years. At their last meeting, in the company of a beautiful woman, an unspoken act of betrayal left all three lives shattered - and each of them alone. Tonight, as wine stirs the blood, it is time to talk of old passions and that last, fateful meeting.'Extraordinary. Elegiac, sombre, musical and gripping. An immensely wise book' Observer'A masterpiece. Works beautifully as a novel of suspense ... whose denouement is as exciting as a detective tale. It is a thrill to read something so startlingly original' Evening Standard'Utterly compelling. An extraordinary and beautiful novel' Scotsman 'One of those novels which stays in the memory long after it has been put down. A masterpiece' Sunday Telegraph

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'Wonderful. Immensely moving' Daily TelegraphAs darkness settles on a forgotten castle at the foot of the Carpathian mountains, two men sit down to a final meal together. They have not seen one another in forty-one years. At their last meeting, in the company of a beautiful woman, an unspoken act of betrayal left all three lives shattered - and each of them alone. Tonight, as wine stirs the blood, it is time to talk of old passions and that last, fateful meeting.'Extraordinary. Elegiac, sombre, musical and gripping. An immensely wise book' Observer'A masterpiece. Works beautifully as a novel of suspense ... whose denouement is as exciting as a detective tale. It is a thrill to read something so startlingly original' Evening Standard'Utterly compelling. An extraordinary and beautiful novel' Scotsman 'One of those novels which stays in the memory long after it has been put down. A masterpiece' Sunday Telegraph

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Although he is now mostly remembered as a novelist, it is as a poet and a translator of poetry that Sándor Márai - the acclaimed author of 'Embers' and 'Conversations in Bolzano' - first made his name in the literary world. This collection, the first and only edition of Márai's poems in the English language - here presented in John M. Rudland's and Peter V. Czipott's brilliant verse translation - offers a comprehensive selection spanning the author's whole career and exemplifying his mastery of what he considered to be the highest form of literary expression.

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