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Temptation - Szekely, Janos, NYRB Classics, Quality
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- ISBN
- 9781681374376
- Book Title
- Temptation
- Item Length
- 8in
- Publisher
- New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.5in
- Genre
- Foreign Language Study, Fiction
- Topic
- Urban, Miscellaneous, Literary, Coming of Age
- Item Width
- 5.3in
- Item Weight
- 25.9 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 688 Pages
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A Dickensian coming-of-age tale about poverty, sex, World War I, and the darker side of human nature as seen through the eyes of a lobby boy in a Budapest hotel. Temptation is a rediscovered masterwork of twentieth-century fiction, a Dickensian tale of a young man coming of age in Budapest between the wars. Illegitimate and unwanted, Bela is packed off to the country to be looked after by a peasant woman the moment he is born. She starves and bullies him, and keeps him out of school. He does his best to hold his own, and eventually his mother brings him back to live with her in the city. In thrall to his feckless father, Mishka, and living in a crowded tenement, she works her fingers to the bone, while Bela shares a room with a hardworking prostitute. Finally, Bela secures a job in a fancy hotel. Though exhausted by endless work, he is fascinated by the upper-crust world that his new job exposes him to; soon he is embroiled with a rich, damaged, and dangerous woman. The atmosphere of Budapest is increasingly poisoned by the appeal of fascism, while Bela grows ever more aware of how power and money keep down the working classes. In the end, with all the odds still against him, he musters the resolve to set sail for new future.
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Publisher
New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
1681374374
ISBN-13
9781681374376
eBay Product ID (ePID)
7038393241
Product Key Features
Book Title
Temptation
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Urban, Miscellaneous, Literary, Coming of Age
Publication Year
2020
Genre
Foreign Language Study, Fiction
Number of Pages
688 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
1.5in
Item Width
5.3in
Item Weight
25.9 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ph3351.S7575t413
Reviews
"In this book, we do not smell the sultry perfume of the golden twenties. Here, the musty odor of moldy apartments, bad food, cheap alcohol, and unventilated toilets seeps out of the sides. But the book is not dull social criticism--the characters are too vital, the story too exciting. And Székely, the accomplished screenwriter, has arranged his scenes far too cleverly." --Joachim Kronsbein, Der Spiegel "A truly great novel that brings everything together: narrative force, social history, wit, anger, grief, love and idealism." --Angela Wittmann, Brigitte
Copyright Date
2020
Target Audience
Trade
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2019-039477
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