Author: Alexander Lernet-Holenia; Richard Winston (Translator); Clara Winston (Translator); Patti Smith (Foreword by)
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: 28 March 2024
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: Alexander Lernet-Holenia; Richard Winston (Translator); Clara Winston (Translator); Patti Smith (Foreword by)
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Description
Baron Bagge, a cavalry officer stationed in Eastern Europe during the First World War, receives orders to ride into a platoon of Russian machine guns. But instead of meeting certain death, he and his brigade pass, unscathed, into a bizarrely peaceful land where festivities are in full swing. There he meets Charlotte Szent-Kiraly, and finds himself falling in a strange, enchanted love - a love harrowed at its edges by the threat of the enemy, and the peculiar fragility of this country's otherworldly peace . . .