{"product_id":"they-were-found-wanting","title":"They Were Found Wanting","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Perfect late night reading\" JAN MORRIS\u003cbr\u003e \"Banffy is a born storyteller\" PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR\u003cbr\u003e \"Totally absorbing\" MARTHA KEARNEY\u003cbr\u003e \"So evocative\" SIMON JENKINS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The second volume of Miklos Banffy's panoramic trilogy of the dying years of the Habsburg empire. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The tale of two Transylvanian cousins, their loves, their ambitions and their fortunes continues in \u003cb\u003eThey Were Found Wanting\u003c\/b\u003e. Balint Abady is forced to part from the beautiful and unhappily married Adrienne Uzdy. Laszlo Gyeroffy is rapidly heading for self-destruction through drink and his own fecklessness. The politicians, quarrelling among themselves and stubbornly ignoring their countrymen's real needs, are still pursuing their vendetta with the Habsburg rule from Vienna. Meanwhile they fail to notice how the Great Powers - through such events as Austria's annexation of Bosnia-Herzagovina in 1908 - are moving ever closer to the conflagration of 1914-1918 that will destroy their world for ever. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Banffy's portrait contrasts a life of privilege and corruption with the lives and problems of an expatriate Romanian peasant minority whom Balint tries to help. It is an unrivalled evocation of a rich and fascinating aristocratic world oblivious of its impending demise.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part two of the trilogy that began with \u003cb\u003eThey Were Counted\u003c\/b\u003e, and ends with \u003cb\u003eThey Were Divided.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTranslated from the Hungarian by Patrick Thursfield and Katalin Banffy-Jelen\u003cbr\u003e With a Foreword by Patrick Leigh-Fermor\u003cbr\u003e WINNER OF THE WEIDENFELD TRANSLATION PRIZE\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57400023843198,"sku":"NW9781529434675","price":14.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781529434675.jpg?v=1778603796","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/they-were-found-wanting","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}