The Rebels - Hardcover

Marai, Sandor

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0330454544 ISBN 13: 9780330454544

Verlag: Picador, 2007

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"A darkly comic, war-ravaged coming-of-age tale that displays much of the genius visible in his later works, but [is] also funnier and more extravagantly imaginative." --"The New Yorker" "The emotional power of the story is that of a simple, straightforward narrative . . . followed by stunning revelation." --"The Boston Globe" "A morbidly comic novel . . . marked by passages of bleak elegiac grandeur." --"The New York Sun"

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It is May 1918, and a group of boys are poised on the brink of adulthood. With war sweeping Europe, theirs has become a ghost town: fathers, uncles and older brothers have been called to the front; the trains that arrive through snow-capped mountains bear the living with the dead. As the boys' graduation looms, so too does their fear of going to fight. Drawn together by the end of all that is familiar, yet repelled by what adulthood has come to represent, a small group of them invent a clandestine world. In their hideaway, with its codes, loves, jealousies, and own elaborate rules, these four test out their frustrations and their fears. Their games are darkly comic, wildly imaginative, increasingly subversive, and they attract the attention of a visitor to the town. By summer's end, their secret is in ruins. The Rebels is a story of complicity and betrayal, of youthful exuberance and dawning responsibility. Another rediscovered gem from the great Hungarian author of Embers, it is a haunting novel that traces the experience of friends who confuse growing up with dying and adulthood with war, and are jolted forever from the final, irretrievable summer of their adolescence. `Elegiac, sombre, musical, and gripping, Embers is a brilliant disquisition on friendship' Observer

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• Verlag: Picador
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0330454544
• ISBN 13: 9780330454544
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288