Csardas
Published on 28. August 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
512 pages
978-1-78185-751-9 (ISBN)
Description
CSARDAS - taken from the name of the Hungarian national dance - follows the fortunes of the enchanting Ferenc sisters from their glittering beginnings in aristocratic Hungary, through the traumas of two World Wars.
From the dazzling elegance of coming-out balls, feudal estates and a culture steeped in romance, to terror and starvation in the concentration camps - no story could be more dramatic than that of Eva and Amalia Ferenc, whose fate it is to be debutantes when the shot which killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo plunged Europe into the First World War. Their story is enthralling, tragic, romantic - and absolutely unputdownable.
From the dazzling elegance of coming-out balls, feudal estates and a culture steeped in romance, to terror and starvation in the concentration camps - no story could be more dramatic than that of Eva and Amalia Ferenc, whose fate it is to be debutantes when the shot which killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo plunged Europe into the First World War. Their story is enthralling, tragic, romantic - and absolutely unputdownable.
Reviews / Votes
'A story you won't easily forget, done on the scale of GONE WITH THE WIND' Sunday Mirror. 'I defy anyone to remain unaffected' London Evening Standard. 'Immensely readable...has all the fire and dash of the national dance from which it takes its title' Sunday Telegraph.More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 145 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-78185-751-9 (9781781857519)
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Person
Diane Pearson worked in publishing for four decades and is the author of seven novels, including the bestselling CSARDAS. She was President of the Romantic Novelists Association for twenty-five years. She lives in South London.