Embers
$24.12
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
6 February 2003
Summary
EMBERS sold over 16,000 copies in hardback and was a Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller.
A castle at the foot of the Carpathian mountains in the 1930s. Two men, inseparable in their youth, meet for the first time in forty-one years. They have spent their lives waiting for this moment.
Four decades earlier, a murky, traumatic event—something to do with a betrayal, and a woman—led to their sudden separation. Now, as their lives draw to a close, the devastating truth about that mome…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141004310 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141004312 |
| Author: | Sandor Marai, Carol Brown Janeway |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 6 February 2003 |
| Weight: | 186g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 17mm |
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Critics Review
Two men who have not seen each other for over 40 years sit down to a final meal together in a forgotten castle at the foot of the Carpathia mountains. The last time they met - in the company of a beautiful woman - an unspoken act of betrayal left all three lives shattered.
About The Author
Sandor Marai
Sandor Marai was born in Hungary in 1900 and by 1930 was one of Hungary’s leading novelists. Driven into exile in 1948 when the Communists came to power and banned his books, he lived first in Italy and then in America. He committed suicide in 1989.
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