| Title | : | An Ermine in Czernopol |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | Gregor von Rezzori, Daniel Kehlmann & Philip Boehm |
| Release | : | 2012-01-10 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Literary Fiction, Books, Fiction & Literature, Classics |
| Size | : | 1143104 |
| An NYRB Classics Original Set just after World War I, An Ermine in Czernopol centers on the tragicomic fate of Tildy, an erstwhile officer in the army of the now-defunct Austro-Hungarian Empire, determined to defend the virtue of his cheating sister-in-law at any cost. Rezzori surrounds Tildy with a host of fantastic characters, engaging us in a kaleidoscopic experience of a city where nothing is as it appears—a city of discordant voices, of wild ugliness and heartbreaking disappointment, in which, however, “laughter was everywhere, part of the air we breathed, a crackling tension in the atmosphere, always ready to erupt in showers of sparks or discharge itself in thunderous peals.” |
