They Were Divided - Miklos Banffy [196]
Vast stony ridges that slanted upwards to the sky.
Giant coffins, a people’s tombstones.
In motionless majesty they stood there beneath a world in flames.
The car arrived.
Balint started the descent from the summit.
THE END
Bonczhida, May 20th, 1940
About the Author
Count Miklós Bánffy (1873–1950) was variously a diplomat, MP and foreign minister in 1921–22 when he signed the peace treaty with the United States and obtained Hungary’s admission to the League of Nations. He was responsible for organising the last Habsburg coronation, that of King Karl in 1916. His famous Transylvanian Trilogy, They Were Counted, They Were Found Wanting, They Were Divided was first published in Budapest in the 1930s.
Co-translators Katalin Bánffy-Jelen and Patrick Thursfield won the 2002 Weidenfeld Translation Prize presented by Umberto Eco.
Count Miklós Bánffy (1873-1950)
Copyright
First published in English in 2001
by Arcadia Books Books, 15-16 Nassau Street, London, W1W 7AB
This ebook edition first published in 2011
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