Esther's Inheritance
Nov 2008 · Vintage
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A newly translated novel from the great rediscovered Hungarian writer: a tautly suspenseful story of unrequited love and its still vivid consequences twenty years later.
What is it to be in love with a pathological liar and fantasist? Esther is, and has been for the more than two decades since Lajos disappeared from her life. Now all these years later, Lajos is returning, and the news brings both panic and excitement. While no longer young and thoroughly skeptical about Lajos, Esther still remembers how incredibly alive she felt when he was around. His presence bewitches everyone, and the greatest part of his charm—and his danger—lies in the deftness with which he wields that delicate power. Friends rally round protectively, but Lajos’s arrival begins a day of high theater that will leave Esther’s life dramatically changed again.
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January 18, 2009
The book itself was a short, fast, read and left me fascinated until the very end. Sandor Marai takes a single day out of the life of a woman and intricately dissects the characters into so many pieces of the puzzling life of Esther and Lajos. Marai was able to evoke such strong emotions with the character descriptions that you were powerless into taking sides, and found yourself befuddled with emotions at the end. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and the translation was superb. I am looking forward to reading more of Marai's works.
About the author
Sándor Márai was born in Kassa, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in 1900, and died in San Diego, California, in 1989. He rose to fame as one of the leading literary novelists in Hungary in the 1930s. Profoundly antifascist, he survived the war, but persecution by the Communists drove him from the country in 1948, first to Italy, then to the United States. His novel Embers was published for the first time in English in 2001.
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