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    Embers (Paperback) By (author) Sandor Marai, Translated by Carol Brown Janeway

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    Short Description for EmbersA castle at the foot of the Carpathian mountains in the 1930s. Two men, inseparable in their youth, meet for the first time in 41 years. They have spent their lives waiting for this moment. Four decades earlier a murky, traumatic event had led to their sudden separation.
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    Mark Thwaite

    Prolific Hungarian novelist (with more than sixty books under his belt) Sandor Morai finally achieved his English-language breakthrough with the excellent, reading-group favourite Embers. Whilst not his first book to be translated (that honour goes to the relatively unknown Memoir of Hungary) it was the first of his novels to see the light of day in English. And the translation, by Carol Brown Janeway (who translated Bernhard Schlink's international literary best-seller The Reader), is always sure-footed, with only the occassional infelicity, and to be warmly welcomed.


    Embers tells the tale of two friends who meet, in the 1930s, after forty-one years of embittered silence, in a castle at the foot of the Carpathian mountains. Here the two discuss the events that led up to their separation and enmity. Or rather they don't! Rather than a conversation the owner of the castle languidly lambasts his ex-friend over the course of a long night with a meandering and beautifully written monologue about their early life together and the questions that life apart has led him to ponder all these years. The event(s) that lead the two friends to split are only very slowly revealed and, for a novel of 'literary fiction', there is a real 'page-turner' quality to the novel. Embers is affecting and moving without being mawkish or sentimental: a real treat.

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