They Were Divided - Miklos Banffy
WINNER OF THE WEIDENFELD TRANSLATION PRIZE
Praise for Miklos Banffy
‘Bánffy is a born storyteller’ Patrick Leigh Fermor, from the Foreword
‘A Tolstoyan portrait of the end days of the Austro-Hungarian empire, this compulsively readable novel follows the divergent fortunes of two cousins, the politician Abady and gamble/drunkard Gyeroffy detailing the intrigues at the decadent Budapest court, the doomed love affairs, opulent balls, duels and general head-in-the sand idiocies of a privileged ...