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They Were Divided
Miklos Banffy
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Description for They Were Divided
Paperback. Hungarian classic and winner of the 2002 Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize, now re-edited and re-jacketed. Translator(s): Thursfield, Patrick. Series: The Writing on the Wall. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 198 x 29. Weight in Grams: 358.
"Perfect late night reading" JAN MORRIS
"Banffy is a born storyteller" PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR
"Totally absorbing" MARTHA KEARNEY
"So evocative" SIMON JENKINS
The final volume of Miklos Banffy's panoramic trilogy of the dying years of the Habsburg empire.
They Were Divided reflects the rapidly disintegrating course of events in Central Europe. In the foreground once again the lives of Balint, with his ultimately unhappy love for Adrienne, and his fatally flawed cousin, Laszlo Gyeroffy, who dies in poverty and neglect, are told with humour and a bitter-sweet nostalgia for a paradise lost through ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
The Writing on the Wall
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781910050927
SKU
V9781910050927
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About Miklos Banffy
Count Miklós Bánffy (1873-1950) was variously a diplomat, MP and foreign minister in 1921-22 when he signed the peace treaty with the United States and obtained Hungary's admission to the League of Nations. He was responsible for organising the last Habsburg coronation, that of King Karl in 1916. His famous "The Writing on the Wall" trilogy was first published in ... Read more
Reviews for They Were Divided
A Tolstoyan portrait of the end days of the Austro-Hungarian empire . . . compulsively readable.
Guardian
A masterpiece, in any language.
Daily Telegraph
Full of arresting descriptions, beautiful evocations of scenery and wise political and moral insights.
Spectator
So enjoyable, so irresistible, it is the author's keen political intelligence and refusal to indulge ... Read more
Guardian
A masterpiece, in any language.
Daily Telegraph
Full of arresting descriptions, beautiful evocations of scenery and wise political and moral insights.
Spectator
So enjoyable, so irresistible, it is the author's keen political intelligence and refusal to indulge ... Read more