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Shooting parties in great country houses, turbulent scenes in parliament, and the luxury life in Budapest provide the backdrop for this gripping, prescient novel, forming a chilling indictment of upper-class frivolity and political folly, in which good manners cloak indifference and brutality. Abady becomes aware of the plight of a group of Romanian mountain peasants and champions their cause, while Gyeroffy dissipates his resources at the gaming tables, mirroring the decline of the Austro-Hungarian empire itself.
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Count Miklós Bánffy (1873-1950) was variously a diplomat MP and foreign minister in 1921-22 when he signed the peace treaty with the United States and obtained Hungary's admission to the League of Nations. He was responsible for organising the last Habsburg coronation that of King Karl in 1916. His famous trilogy, The Writing on the Wall, was first published in Budapest in the 1930s.
They Were Counted ($28.95 paperback original; Jun. 14, 1999; 596 pp.; 1-900850-15-X): This roomy, eventful historical novel is the opening volume of a celebrated trilogy (A Transylvanian Story, 193440) written by a remarkably gifted (Romanian-born) Hungarian aristocrat (18731950) whose busy career as an influential diplomat somehow left time for B nffy's equally impressive achievements as a painter and designer, musical administrator (who befriended Bla Bartk), and writer. They Were Counted is a Tolstoyan panorama that dramatizes Hungarian and Romanian history in the prewar years 190414 by juxtaposing the sometimes intertwined lives of two highborn cousins: one a heartless sybarite who casually throws his life away, the other a compassionate defender of his country's endangered peasant populace. It's a great work, whose forthcoming further volumes (the whole in English to be collectively entitled The Writing on the Wall) will be eagerly awaited by readers swept up in B nffy's replete, absorbing, and very moving story. -- Copyright ©1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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