Journey by Moonlight
January 2001
Trade Paperback · 240 Pages
$12.95 U.S. · $14.50 CAN
ISBN 9781901285505
Pushkin Press
Trade Paperback · 240 Pages
$12.95 U.S. · $14.50 CAN
ISBN 9781901285505
Pushkin Press
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No one who has read it has failed to love it. — Nicholas Lezard, Guardian
Szerb belongs with the master novelists of the twentieth century. — Paul Bailey, Daily Telegraph
ANXIOUS TO PLEASE his bourgeois father, Mihaly has joined the family firm in Budapest. Pursued by nostalgia for his bohemian youth, he seeks escape in marriage to Erzsi, not realising that she has chosen him as a means to her own rebellion. On their honeymoon in Italy Mihaly loses his bride at a provincial station and embarks on a chaotic and bizarre journey that leads him finally to Rome. There all the death-haunted and erotic elements of his past converge, and he, like Erzsi, has finally to choose.
Szerb belongs with the master novelists of the twentieth century. — Paul Bailey, Daily Telegraph
ANXIOUS TO PLEASE his bourgeois father, Mihaly has joined the family firm in Budapest. Pursued by nostalgia for his bohemian youth, he seeks escape in marriage to Erzsi, not realising that she has chosen him as a means to her own rebellion. On their honeymoon in Italy Mihaly loses his bride at a provincial station and embarks on a chaotic and bizarre journey that leads him finally to Rome. There all the death-haunted and erotic elements of his past converge, and he, like Erzsi, has finally to choose.