They Were Counted by Miklos Banffy
**Washington Post Best Books of 2013**The celebrated TRANSYLVANIAN TRILOGY by Count Mikl s B nffy is a stunning historical epic set in the lost world of the Hungarian aristocracy just before World War I. Written in the 1930s and first discovered by the English-speaking world after the fall of communism in Hungary, B nffy's novels were translated in the late 1990s to critical acclaim and now appear for the first time in hardcover. They Were Counted, the first novel in the trilogy, introduces us to a decadent, frivolous, and corrupt society unwittingly bent on its own destruction during the last years of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. B nffy's lush depiction of an opulent lost paradise focuses on two upper-class cousins who couldn't be more different: Count Balint Ab dy, a liberal politician who compassionately defends his homeland's downtrodden Romanian peasants, and his dissipated cousin L szl , whose life is a whirl of parties, balls, hunting, and gambling. They Were Counted launches a story that brims with intrigues, love affairs, duels, murder, comedy, and tragedy, set against the rugged and ravishing scenery of Transylvania. Along with the other two novels in the trilogy--They Were Found Wanting and They Were Divided--it combines a Proustian nostalgia for the past, insight into a collapsing empire reminiscent of the work of Joseph Roth, and the drama and epic sweep of Tolstoy.
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 | 9781905147977 |
| ISBN 10 | 190514797X |
| Title | They Were Counted |
| Author | Miklos Banffy |
| Series | Transylvanian Trilogy |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Arcadia Books |
| Year published | 2009-05-07 |
| Number of pages | 596 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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