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by Patrick Leigh Fermor (Foreword), Miklos Banffy (Author), Patrick Thursfield (Translator), Katalin Banyff-Jelen (Translator) "BALINT ABADY STEPPED QUIETLY into the family box at the theatre at Kolozsvar ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 336 pages
  • Publisher: Arcadia Books (12 Jun 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1900850516
  • ISBN-13: 978-1900850513
  • Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 13.8 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 87,272 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"A masterpiece. This very readable translation makes a wonderful book accessible to many more people" - New Statesman"A genuine case of a rediscovered classic" Times Literary Supplement

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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.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Majestic continuation of this splendid trilogy, 28 Dec 2001
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This elegant masterpiece celebrates the last years of Transylvanian aristocratic life before world war 1. It tells the story of the love between Adrienne and Balint against a background of growing ethnic and international tension.

The author's anguish at the end of the civilisation he loved is hidden behind his sensuous reconstruction of social life in great houses, by the beauty of the Carpathian mountains to which the lovers briefly escape, and by the comic relief provided by rural life in all social classes.

Trollope meets Proust.

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