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Skylark [electronic resource] / Dezső Kosztolányi ; translated from the Hungarian by Richard Aczel ; introduction by Péter Esterházy.
It is 1900, give or take a few years. The Vajkays live in a dead-end burg in the provincial heart of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Father retired some years ago to devote his days to genealogical research and quaint questions of heraldry. Mother keeps house. Both are utterly enthralled with their daughter, Skylark. Unintelligent, unimaginative, unattractive, and unmarried, Skylark cooks and sews for her parents and anchors the unremitting tedium of their lives. Now Skylark is going away, for one week only, but a week that yawns endlessly for her parents. What will they do? Before they know it, they are eating at restaurants, reconnecting with old friends, attending the theater. Then, Skylark is back. Is there a world beyond the daily grind and life's creeping disappointments?
Record details
- ISBN: 9781590174029 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 159017402X (electronic bk.)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (160 p.)
- Publisher: New York : New York Review Books, [2010]
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Originally published: London : Chatto & Windus, 1993. |
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| Subject: | Parent and adult child > Fiction. Hungarian fiction > Translations into English. |
| Genre: | Electronic books. |
