{"product_id":"embers-9780375707421","title":"Embers","description":"Originally published in 1942 and now rediscovered to international acclaim, this taut and exquisitely structured novel by the Hungarian master Sandor Marai conjures the melancholy glamour of a decaying empire and the disillusioned wisdom of its last heirs.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a secluded woodland castle an old General prepares to receive a rare visitor, a man who was once his closest friend but who he has not seen in forty-one years.  Over the ensuing hours host and guest will fight a duel of words and silences, accusations and evasions. They will exhume the memory of their friendship and that of the General’s beautiful, long-dead wife. And they will return to the time the three of them last sat together following a hunt in the nearby forest--a hunt in which no game was taken but during which something was lost forever. \u003cb\u003eEmbers\u003c\/b\u003e is a classic of modern European literature, a work whose poignant evocation of the past also seems like a prophetic glimpse into the moral abyss of the present","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"STANDARD","offer_id":62341442929027,"sku":"9780375707421","price":17.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0907\/8456\/3587\/files\/9780375707421.jpg?v=1786148511","url":"https:\/\/shopcomics.eu\/products\/embers-9780375707421","provider":"Shop Comics EU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}