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Embers / Sándor Márai ; translated by Carol Brown Janeway.

by Márai, Sándor, 1900-1989.

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Vintage International, a division of Random House, Inc., 2002, c2001.

Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction.

Aristocracy (Social class) -- Fiction.

Castles -- Fiction.

Carpathian Mountains -- Fiction.

9780375707421 (trade pbk.)

1st Vintage International ed.

213 p. ; 21 cm.

[Originally published as "Gyertyák csonkig égnek" in Budapest, Hungary in 1942].

This edition translated from the German language work Die Glut, 1999.

Translated from the German.

In a castle at the foot of the Carpathian Mountains, an old aristocrat waits to greet the friend he has not seen for forty-one years. In the course of this one night, from dinner until dawn, the two men will fight a duel of words and silences, of stories, of accusations and evasions, that will encompass their entire lives and that of a third person, missing from the candlelit dining hall - the now dead chatelaine of the castle. The last time the three of them sat together was in this room, after a stag hunt in the forest. The year was 1900. No game was shot that day, but the reverberations were cataclysmic. And the time of reckoning has finally arrived.

Hungarian fiction -- Translations into English.

German fiction -- Translations into English.

Psychological fiction.

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