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Embers-Marai and Flights of Love-Schlink
Posted by Lale on 12/2/2002, 12:14:19
Amongst the favorable reviews of new books in this month's Literary Review, these two books caught my attention:
Marai was born in 1900 in Slovakia. This book was first published in 1942 and apparently remained unknown until its reissue recently. It "brilliantly recreates the atmosphere of the declining Habsburg Empire, in prose as clear and smooth as the Danube on a summer's day", the reviewer, Adam LeBor says. He also assures us that the translation is superb.
~Flights of Love - by Bernhard Schlink
A collection of short stories by the author of The Reader.
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Posted by Anna van Gelderen on 12/2/2002, 14:02:10, in reply to "Embers-Marai and Flights of Love-Schlink"
I read Marai's book a couple of years ago, when it first came out in Dutch translation. It is fairly short novel about two old men (former friends) who have not seen each other for a long time. They are finally meeting again and it seems that the thing that has stood between them for so long is finally going to be resolved. It is a meditative book without a lot of action, but definitely worth reading. I am glad it has finally appeared in English.
Posted by Lale on 12/2/2002, 19:34:30, in reply to "Re: Embers-Marai"
Is there anything you haven't read?
You are the only person I know whose list of books-not-read is shorter than her list of books-read ;-)
I want to read Embers very much. Simply because its background is the Habsburg Empire.