Embers
Published on 4. August 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-241-97894-8 (ISBN)
Description
The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time.
'Wonderful. Immensely moving' Daily Telegraph
As 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
'Wonderful. Immensely moving' Daily Telegraph
As 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
Reviews / Votes
Magnificent. A spellbinding [story] driven by intense passion * The Times * Beautifully realised. Passionate and compelling. Magical * John Banville, Irish Times * A lost masterpiece - a brilliant elegy on friendship, one of the most ambitious in literature * Observer *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 180 mm
Width: 108 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
150 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-241-97894-8 (9780241978948)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Sandor Marai was born in Hungary in 1900 and by 1930 was one of Hungary's leading novelists. Driven into exile in 1948 when the Communists came to power and banned his books, he lived first in Italy and then in America. He committed suicide in 1989.