{"product_id":"they-were-divided","title":"They Were Divided","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Perfect late night reading\" JAN MORRIS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Banffy is a born storyteller\" PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Totally absorbing\" MARTHA KEARNEY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"So evocative\" SIMON JENKINS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe final volume of Miklos \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eBánffy''s\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003epanoramic trilogy of the dying years of the Habsburg empire.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThey Were Divided \u003c\/b\u003ereflects the rapidly disintegrating course of events in Central Europe. In the foreground once again the lives of Balint, with his ultimately unhappy love for Adrienne, and his fatally flawed cousin, Laszlo Gyeroffy, who dies in poverty and neglect, are told with humour and a bitter-sweet nostalgia for a paradise lost through folly. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe sinister and fast moving events in Montenegro, the Balkan wars, the apparent encirclement of Germany and Austria-Hungary by Britain, France and Russia, and finally the assassination of Franz Ferdinand all lead inexorably to the youth of Hungary marching off to their death and the dismemberment of their once great country.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVolume three of the epic, sweeping and wholly immersive trilogy that began with \u003cb\u003eThey Were Counted\u003c\/b\u003e, and continued with \u003cb\u003eThey Were Found Wanting.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTranslated from the Hungarian by Patrick Thursfield and Katalin \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eBánffy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e-Jelen\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith a Foreword by Patrick Leigh-Fermor\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE WEIDENFELD TRANSLATION PRIZE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57396866023806,"sku":"NW9781529434682","price":14.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781529434682.jpg?v=1778607189","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/they-were-divided","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}