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Conversations in Bolzano by Sandor Marai
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
It is midnight, October 31st 1758 and Giacomo Casanova has escaped from a Venetian prison after sixteen months consigned to darkness and the underworld. Shaking off the enforced solitude, Casanova makes his way to Bolzano - the small village where he was dealt a cruel hand. A place full of memories, Bol ...Show more
Embers by Sandor Marai
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
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 pre ...Show more
Embers by Sandor Marai
$25.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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 ...Show more
The Withering World by Sandor Marai
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Although he is now mostly remembered as a novelist, it is as a poet and translator of poetry that Sandor Marai - the acclaimed author of Embers and Conversations in Bolzano - first made his name in the literary world. This collection, the first and only edition of Marai's poems in the English language - ...Show more
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