This is a quartet of novellas including "Accountant", "Batorsag and Szerelem", "City of Broken Dreams" and "The Palace Thief". In the title story, a teacher spots the seeds of corruption in a wayward student and watches with fascinated horror as the boy, and then the man flourishes.
- ISBN10 0679419624
- ISBN13 9780679419624
- Publish Date 25 January 1994
- Publish Status Active
- Imprint Random House (NY)
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 205
- Language English