Embers (Vintage International)

by Sandor Marai

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The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time.

'Wonderful. Immensely moving' Daily Telegraph

As darkness settles on a forgotten castle at the foot of the Carpathian mountains, two men sit down to a final meal together. They have not seen one another in forty-one years. At their last meeting, in the company of a beautiful woman, an unspoken act of betrayal left all three lives shattered - and each of them alone. Tonight, as wine stirs the blood, it is time to talk of old passions and that last, fateful meeting.

'Extraordinary. Elegiac, sombre,...

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  • ISBN10 0241978947
  • ISBN13 9780241978948
  • Publish Date 4 August 2016 (first published 25 September 2001)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 256
  • Language English