They Were Divided by Miklos Banffy
In the foreground 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 folly. The sinister and fast moving events in Montenegro, the Balkan wars, the apparent encirclement of Germany and Austria-Hungary by Britain, France and Russia, and finally the assassination of Franz Ferdinand all lead inexorably to the youth of Hungary marching off to their death and the dismemberment of their country.
"A masterpieceThis very readable translation makes a wonderful book accessible to many more people" - New Statesman"A genuine case of a rediscovered classic" Times Literary Supplement
Miklos Banffy (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 organizing the last Habsburg coronation, that of King Karl in 1916. His famous Transylvanian Trilogy, They Were Counted, They Were Found Wanting, They Were Divided was first published in Budapest in the 1930s.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781906413781 |
| ISBN 10 | 1906413789 |
| Titel | They Were Divided |
| Autor | Miklos Banffy |
| Serie | The Writing On The Wall |
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| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | Quercus Publishing |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2010-10-07 |
| Seitenanzahl | 336 |
| Preise | Winner of Weidenfeld Translation Prize 2002 |
| Hinweis auf dem Einband | Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden. |
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