Embers

by Sándor Márai | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0141004312 Global Overview for this book
Registered by Annimanni of Espoo, Uusimaa / Nyland Finland on 7/1/2014
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Journal Entry 1 by Annimanni from Espoo, Uusimaa / Nyland Finland on Tuesday, July 1, 2014
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"Originally published in 1942 and now rediscovered to international acclaim, this taut and exquisitely structured novel by the Hungarian master Sandor Marai conjures the melancholy glamour of a decaying empire and the disillusioned wisdom of its last heirs.

In a secluded woodland castle an old General prepares to receive a rare visitor, a man who was once his closest friend but who he has not seen in forty-one years. Over the ensuing hours host and guest will fight a duel of words and silences, accusations and evasions. They will exhume the memory of their friendship and that of the General’s beautiful, long-dead wife. And they will return to the time the three of them last sat together following a hunt in the nearby forest--a hunt in which no game was taken but during which something was lost forever. Embers is a classic of modern European literature, a work whose poignant evocation of the past also seems like a prophetic glimpse into the moral abyss of the present."

Journal Entry 2 by Annimanni at Espoo, Uusimaa / Nyland Finland on Sunday, August 19, 2018
Beautiful, haunting, melancholic, poignant – and wonderfully translated, too – this is a story of three lives wasted, of the destruction that can ensue when words are left unspoken. Recommended reading!

Journal Entry 3 by Annimanni at Espoo, Uusimaa / Nyland Finland on Sunday, August 19, 2018

Released 5 yrs ago (8/20/2018 UTC) at Espoo, Uusimaa / Nyland Finland

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Journal Entry 4 by wingkeeta1wing at Howick, Auckland Province New Zealand on Tuesday, September 4, 2018
Thank you Annimanni for the book which arrived today, along with a very cute fluffy bookmark and nice bookish postcard - love them :)

Journal Entry 5 by wingkeeta1wing at Whitianga, Waikato-Coromandel New Zealand on Monday, April 27, 2020
Beautifully written, but a little too slow and philosophical for me.
I think this may be the only Hungarian author I have ever read.

Journal Entry 6 by wingkeeta1wing at Tarapatiki River Reserve in Whitianga, Waikato-Coromandel New Zealand on Tuesday, December 15, 2020

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