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Esther's Inheritance

Esther's Inheritance - Sándor Márai

bookshelves: hungary, winter-20112012, translation, published-1939, paper-read, shortstory-shortstories-novellas

Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Gifted by Sympatico
Read from December 23, 2011 to January 05, 2012

 

** spoiler alert ** Translated from the Hungarian by George Szirtes.

Opening - I don't know what else God has in store for me.

NOTE TO ANY PASSING LIBRARIAN - the GoodReads blurb box states that this was published in 1900, which was the year Márai was born. - sorted by Karen.

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3* - Esther's Inheritance (1939)
4* - Embers (1942)