(DOWNLOAD) "Embers" by Sándor Márai ~ Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
eBook details
- Title: Embers
- Author : Sándor Márai
- Release Date : January 25, 2001
- Genre: Classics,Books,Fiction & Literature,Mysteries & Thrillers,Romance,Historical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 2241 KB
Description
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