Portraits of a Marriage
By Sandor Marai
By Sandor Marai
By Sandor Marai
Translated by George Szirtes
By Sandor Marai
Translated by George Szirtes
Part of Vintage International
Part of Vintage International
Category: Historical Fiction | Historical Romance | Literary Fiction
Category: Historical Fiction | Historical Romance | Literary Fiction
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$20.00
Mar 06, 2012 | ISBN 9781400096671
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Feb 22, 2011 | ISBN 9780307595386
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Praise
“Portraits of a Marriage is brilliant in the acuity of its observations, its unremitting intelligence. . . . Marai gives voice to a vanished world in a chorus that is both eulogy and manifesto.” —The New York Times Book Review
“Superbly readable. . . . Deeply satisfying. . . . Like Tolstoy, he has a kind of genius for the small touches that define a marriage, and also like Tolstoy, he is brilliant at dissecting the tiny differences that separate one layer of society from another.” —The Daily Beast
“With this phenomenal novel, our conviction is confirmed: he ranks as one of the twentieth century’s greatest novelists.” —Booklist
“A cubist portrait of a harsh love and a dying society, elegantly paced and delightfully contradictory. . . . With each new voice [Márai] builds suspense and reveals new layers and twists to this tale. Suffused with nostalgia and regret, the book evokes and examines both the nature of longing and the decline of a great empire.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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