Embers

Beschreibung

The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time. <BR><BR>'Wonderful. Immensely moving' Daily Telegraph<BR><BR>As darkness settles on a forgotten castle at the foot of the Carpathian mountains, two men sit down to a final meal together. They have not seen one another in forty-one years. At their last meeting, in the company of a beautiful woman, an unspoken act of betrayal left all three lives shattered - and each of them alone.

Tonight, as wine stirs the blood, it is time to talk of old passions and that last, fateful meeting.<BR><BR>'Extraordinary. Elegiac, sombre, musical and gripping. An immensely wise book' Observer<BR><BR>'A masterpiece. Works beautifully as a novel of suspense ... whose denouement is as exciting as a detective tale. It is a thrill to read something so startlingly original' Evening Standard<BR><BR>'Utterly compelling.

An extraordinary and beautiful novel' Scotsman <BR><BR>'One of those novels which stays in the memory long after it has been put down. A masterpiece' Sunday Telegraph

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