Embers

A widely acclaimed and posthumously published novel from one of the most highly regarded Hungarian novelists of the 20th century. A story of passion, fidelity, truth and deception which was described in The Observer as “a lost masterpiece – a brilliant elegy on friendship, one of the most ambitious in literature”.

A castle at the foot of the Carpathian mountains in the 1930s. Two men, inseparable in their youth, meet for the first time in 41 years. They have spent their lives waiting for this moment. Four decades earlier a murky, traumatic event had led to their sudden separation.