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Loading... The Rebels (Vintage International) (original 1930; edition 2008)by Sandor Marai
Work InformationThe Rebels by Sándor Márai (1930)
   None No current Talk conversations about this book.   ) RickGeissal | Aug 16, 2023 |   ) skipstern | Jul 11, 2021 |  )1  KatrinkaV | May 4, 2014 |  ) mari_reads | Apr 12, 2013 | Bit of a boring confusing book about 4 youths growing up in Hungary and what they get up to. They steal money, get drunk, hang about with an older actor. He leaves them. They are in fear of their fathers. Sorry but I found this book boring and didnt really see the point of it. (  ) Daftboy1 | Oct 21, 2012 | no reviews | add a review
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Embers . . . Casanova in Bolzano . . . and now The Rebels: the third of the rediscovered novels of the great Hungarian writer—the jolting story of a troubled group of young men on the cusp of life, and death, in World War I.It is the summer of 1918. As graduation approaches at a boys’ academy in provincial Hungary, the senior class finds itself in a ghost town. Fathers, uncles, older brothers—all have been called to the front. Surrounded only by old men, mothers, aunts, and sisters, the boys are keenly aware that graduation will propel them into the army and imminently toward likely death on the battlefield. In the final weeks of the academic year, four of these young men—and the war-wounded older brother of one of them—are drawn tightly together, sensing in one another a mutual alienation from their bleak, death-mapped future. Soon they are acting out their frustrations and fears in a series of increasingly serious, strange, and subversive games and petty thefts. But when they attract the attention of a stranger in town—an actor with a traveling theater company—their games, and their lives, begin to move in a direction they could not have predicted and cannot control. No library descriptions found. 
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 Google Books — Loading...GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)894.511334Literature Literature of other languages Altaic, Finno-Ugric, Uralic and Dravidian languages Fenno-Ugric languages Ugric languages Hungarian Hungarian fiction 1900–2000 Late 20th century 1945–2000LC ClassificationRatingAverage: (3.36)
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