![Stonedial](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/f/199/006/9780151006199.IN.0.m.jpg)
![Stonedial](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/f/199/006/9780151006199.IN.0.m.jpg)
Stonedial
by Konrad, George
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine copy in fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0151006199
- ISBN 13
- 9780151006199
- Seller
-
Pittsford, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Synopsis
The year 1993. Janos Dragomán, a wandering scholar, a world-famous and world-weary Hungarian writer, returns to his native town to visit three old friends. They are Aba Kuno, the almost saintly, highly respected rector of the university; Antal Tombor, the charismatic popular showman-mayor; and Kobra, a stable family man who is also a ubiquitous media pundit dispensing "common sense." The three have wives, all eager to be seduced by Dragom‡n, whose reputation precedes him. Through a series of flashbacks, covering his intellectually and sexually precocious schooldays, his memories of the life of Jews in 1944, and the 1956 Revolution (brilliantly rendered), we learn that Dragomán inadvertently caused the massacre of six young colleagues. Through the turbulent history of a Central European country, Konrád explores familiar themes and delivers a universal, appropriately ambiguous, message.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Abacus Bookshop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BOOKS082998I
- Title
- Stonedial
- Author
- Konrad, George
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine copy in fine dust jacket
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0151006199
- ISBN 13
- 9780151006199
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2000
Terms of Sale
Abacus Bookshop
About the Seller
Abacus Bookshop
About Abacus Bookshop
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes: