| Edition |
First American edition. |
| Description |
371 pages ; 25 cm |
| Summary |
This autopsy of a failed marriage shows a virtuosic control of character and tone meaningfully set against the ossification of the fin de siècle Austro-Hungarian empire. It starts with Ilonka, whose middle-class husband, Peter, is in love with his mother-in-law's maid, Judit. Ilonka's bitter tale of a fight to win her husband back, only to be outdone by the other woman, gives way to the same story told by Peter, itself followed by Judit's take. What emerges is a cubist portrait of a harsh love and a dying society, elegantly paced and delightfully contradictory. |
| Subject |
Marriage -- Fiction.
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Married people -- Fiction.
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Spouses -- Fiction.
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Mistresses -- Fiction.
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Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Szirtes, George, 1948-
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| Added Title |
Igazi. English
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| ISBN |
9781400045013 |
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1400045010 |
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