Embers . . . Casanova in Bolzano . . . and now The Rebels: the third of the rediscovered novels of the great Hungarian writerâ€”the jolting story of a troubled group of young men

The Rebels

Embers . . . Casanova in Bolzano . . . and now The Rebels: the third of the rediscovered novels of the great Hungarian writerâ€”the jolting story of a troubled group of young men on the cusp of life, and death, in World War I.

It is the summer of 1918. As graduation approaches at a boysâ€™ academy in provincial Hungary, the senior class finds itself in a ghost town. Fathers, uncles, older brothersâ€”all have been called to the front. Surrounded only by old men, mothers, aunts, and sisters, the boys are keenly aware that graduation will propel them into the army and imminently toward likely death on the battlefield. In the final weeks of the academic year, four of these young menâ€”and the war-wounded older brother of one of themâ€”are drawn tightly together, sensing in one another a mutual alienation from their bleak, death-mapped future. Soon they are acting out their frustrations and fears in a series of increasingly serious, strange, and subversive games and petty thefts. But when they attract the attention of a stranger in townâ€”an actor with a traveling theater companyâ€”their games, and their lives, begin to move in a direction they could not have predicted and cannot control.
Country USA
Manufacturer Knopf
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2007-03-20
EANs 9780375407574

The Rebels