A troubled villager flees to the city's comfortable anonymity — a respite that's shattered by the appearance of his boyhood love, her husband, and child. "Fierce and distinctive." — Kirkus Reviews.

In 2004, late in her legendary career, Ágota Kristóf wrote this slim dagger of a memoir about being a refugee after fleeing Hungary in 1956

Historically accurate, filled with universal truths, written with a European flair, The Dukays documents that critical moment in history when power changes hands.

You cannot put it down: witty, moving and it's all about sex' Margaret Drabble 'A masterpiece ... dazzling ... like all great novels, it shows the truth about life' Le Monde 'At the basis of pleasure, of eroticism, Vizinczey places ...

Set against the backdrop of Hungary between the wars, in a world on the verge of dramatic change, this exquisite novel offers further posthumous evidence of Marai’s brilliance. Translated from the Hungarian by George Szirtes