From the great Hungarian writer Sándor Márai, Esther's Inheritance is the tautly suspenseful story of a long-ago unrequited love and its vivid consequences twenty years later.
What is it to be in love with a pathological liar and fantasist? Esther is, and has been for the more than two decades since Lajos disappeared from her life. Now all these years later Lajos is returning, and the news brings both panic and excitement. While no longer young, and thoroughly skeptical about Lajos and his lies, Esther still remembers how incredibly alive she felt when he was around. His presence bewitches everyone, and the greatest part of his charm – and his danger – lies in the deftness with wich he wields that delicate power. Nothing good can come of this: friends rally round protectively, but Lajos's arrival begins a day of high theather that will leave Esther's life dramatically changed again.
Esther's Inheritance 1 csillagozás
Eredeti megjelenés éve: 1939
Népszerű idézetek
The house was filling up with the aroma of hot seasoned food that always carries an immemorial sense of the simple delights of life along with something of its haste, conjuring the tinkle of cutlery, the slamming of doors, the clatter of plates, the distant chatter of arriving guests, faint childish screams, all amounting to some physical or musical fanfare to declare that life was a miracle to be celebrated!
page 78-79
Look here, twenty years have passed, twenty years! There will be not many more twenty years like that now, these may be the last. In twenty years things become clearer, more transparent, more comprehensible.
page 67
But one day we notice that everything has been exactly as it is supposed to be, in perfect order, in perfect time… it is impossible for people to meet one day sooner than they are supposed to. They meet when they're ready for meeting… They're ready not necessarily by virtue of their whims and wishes but by virtue of something deeper, some undeniable stellar law, the way planets meet in infinite time and space, precise to within a microsecond, colliding at a unique moment, one in a billion years in the vastness of space.
page 128
It is not enough to love somebody, you must love courageously. You must love so that no thief or plan or law, whether that be the law of heaven or of the world, can come between.
page 129
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