{"product_id":"portraits-of-a-marriage-paperback","title":"Portraits of a Marriage - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSandor Marai\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA rediscovered masterwork from famed Hungarian novelist S ndor M rai, \u003ci\u003ePortraits of a Marriage \u003c\/i\u003etracks the lifelong entanglement of a man and two women haunted by class differences and misdirected longings. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePeter and Ilonka are a wealthy couple whose outwardly perfect marriage is undone by secrets. The insecure Ilonka believes she can never be elegant and refined enough for her husband, while Peter has long been tormented by his forbidden love for Judit, a peasant and servant in his childhood home. What Judit longs for most, however, is freedom from the constraints of the society that has ensnared all three in a vortex of love and loss. 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTranslated from the Hungarian by George Szirtes\u003cbr\u003e \u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSándor Márai\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Kassa, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in 1900, and died in San Diego, California, in 1989. He rose to fame as one of the leading literary novelists in Hungary in the 1930s. Profoundly antifascist, he survived the war, but persecution by the Communists drove him from the country in 1948, first to Italy, then to the United States. He is the author of the internationally best-selling \u003ci\u003eEmbers, Casanova in Bolzano, Esther's Inheritance, The Rebels, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003ePortraits of a Marriage.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 384\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.83 x 7.97 x 5.21 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 06, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51758795686176,"sku":"9781400096671","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/07afbba902d295a25d52ef3a5af940b3.webp?v=1780135770","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/portraits-of-a-marriage-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}