{"product_id":"9780375712302","title":"The Transylvanian Trilogy, Volumes II \u0026 III: They Were Found Wanting, They Were Divided; Introduction by Patrick Thursfield","description":"\u003cb\u003e**\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e Best Books of 2013**\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe celebrated TRANSYLVANIAN TRILOGY by Count Miklós Bánffy is a stunning historical epic set in the lost world of the Hungarian aristocracy just before World War I. Written in the 1930s and first discovered by the English-speaking world after the fall of communism in Hungary, Bánffy’s novels were translated in the late 1990s to critical acclaim and appear here for the first time in hardcover.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThey Were Found Wanting \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThey Were Divided, \u003c\/i\u003ethe second and third novels in the trilogy, continue the story of the two aristocratic cousins introduced in \u003ci\u003eThey Were Counted \u003c\/i\u003eas they navigate a dissolute society teetering on the brink of catastrophe. Count Balint Abády, a liberal politician who defends his homeland’s downtrodden Romanian peasants, loses his beautiful lover, Adrienne, who is married to a sinister and dangerously insane man, while his cousin László loses himself in reckless and self-destructive addictions. Meanwhile, no one seems to notice the gathering clouds that are threatening the Austro-Hungarian Empire and that will soon lead to the brutal dismemberment of their country. Set amid magnificent scenery of wild forests, snowcapped mountains, and ancient castles, THE TRANSYLVANIAN TRILOGY combines a Proustian nostalgia for a lost world, insight into a collapsing empire reminiscent of the work of Joseph Roth, and the drama and epic sweep of Tolstoy.","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42575795388477,"sku":"9780375712302","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780375712302_p0.jpg?v=1771587228","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.mom\/products\/9780375712302","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}