PRODUCT OVERVIEW
- ISBN 9780715637470
- Categories BX, BXOS, Contemporary Fiction, extraordinary, F GEN, Fiction
- Author(s) Arthur Phillips
- Publisher Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
- Pages 384
- Format Paperback
- Dimensions 12.9cm x 2.7cm x 19.8cm
- Weight 0.27 kg
product description
A group of American expats en route to adventure, inspiration, or perhaps even history-in-the-making in Prague, somehow get sidetracked and settle instead for the enigmatic city of Budapest. Arriving in Hungary's capital to pursue his elusive brother, journalist John Price finds himself drawn into the din of Budapest's nightclubs, a romance with a secretive young diplomat, the table of an elderly cocktail pianist, and the moody company of a young man obsessed with nostalgia, all in a bid to forget the larger questions that arise in a city still pocked with bullet holes from war and crushed rebellion. With humour, intelligence and masterly prose, Phillips captures the character of his contemporaries and brilliantly renders a very weird 'modern' city.