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A Stuga On the Cusp of the Orust Riviera, tucked away next to a hobbit hole in the woods.

The Sunflower

Sunflower - Gyula KrĂșdy, John Batki, John A. Lukacs

bookshelves: translation, one-penny-wonder, hungary, summer-2010, published-1918, doo-lally, noir, amusing, books-with-a-passport

Recommended for: Post on to Carey then Hayes
Read from June 14 to 22, 2010

 

Translated from the Hungarian by John Bátki
Introduction by John Lukacs

1. THE TOUCHABLE EVELINE. THE YOUNG miss lay abed reading by the light of the candelabra.

Beautifully written, and that last passage of wolf-howl winter nights brought a tear to my eye. And what about this from the hand of that rogue Pistoli: You were the Fairy Queen in the apple tree of my life

*sigh*

So many fabulous ideas here, and so much dark humour.

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