| Cobblestone Contributor(s): Lengyel, Péter (Author), Bátki, John (Translator) |
|
 |
ISBN: 0930523865 ISBN-13: 9780930523862 Publisher: Readers International OUR PRICE: $21.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2018 Annotation: Detectives and criminals engage in a battle of wits across turn-of-the-20th century Europe from Odessa to Budapest. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 91060883 |
| Physical Information: 1.08" H x 5.62" W x 8.2" (1.38 lbs) 604 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Ranging through a history of changing empires, monarchies, countries, regimes, religions, down to the disappearing shop-fronts and street names, Hungary is always there, through the Millennium celebrations over a century ago, amid the exhausted last days of communism, and even under today's "illiberal democracy". "A vast, sprawling novel linking a meticulously plotted jewel theft in 1896 Budapest to the impulsive crime of passion that sinks the plotters - and to the history of modern Hungary, of the anonymous narrator's family, and of life on earth.... A heroically scaled assault on narrative and causality.... Ulysses-like." KIRKUS "More science fiction than a detective novel, not the usual cynical detective novel, but the big story of the early twentieth century throughout Europe, with the streets and brothels of Budapest at its center.... A fascinating mosaic of the underworld of Budapest, as well as a fantastic heist story." International Noir Fiction |