false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170780004m/71465.jpg 71465 13 <p></p><p><i>Embers . . . Casanova in Bolzano . . .</i> and now <i>The Rebels:</i> the third of the rediscovered novels of the great Hungarian writer&#8212;the jolting story of a troubled group of young men on the cusp of life, and death, in World War I.<br><br>It is the summer of 1918. As graduation approaches at a boys&#8217; academy in provincial Hungary, the senior class finds itself in a ghost town. Fathers, uncles, older brothers&#8212;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 men&#8212;and the war-wounded older brother of one of them&#8212;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 town&#8212;an actor with a traveling theater company&#8212;their games, and their lives, begin to move in a direction they could not have predicted and cannot control.</p> 69209 1930 The Rebels total:48|5:7|4:19|3:17|2:6|1:1| 48 167 119 8 4 0 false false Mon Mar 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 04 22:23:16 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 09 06:44:48 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat May 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 09 09:03:46 -0700 2008 Sat May 30 09:53:52 -0700 2009 The Rebels while traveling through Budapest, Bratislava, and Prague. This was part of my standing rule of reading a novel from the country you are visiting while traveling. In paid off well with Stevenson in the UK and Strindberg in Sweden. It did not s...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Dec 19 09:28:39 -0800 2007 Wed Dec 26 10:49:11 -0800 2007 more...]]> 1 0 false false Sat Nov 14 11:48:53 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 14 11:49:44 -0800 2009 2 0 false false Tue Jan 29 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 14 20:14:04 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 28 21:33:53 -0800 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Wed May 30 00:31:03 -0700 2007 Wed May 30 00:33:09 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Dec 08 14:15:57 -0800 2007 Sat Oct 27 18:41:37 -0700 2007 Mon Nov 09 06:45:01 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Thu Aug 16 17:59:14 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 16 18:01:41 -0700 2007 0 0 false false Tue Mar 17 07:48:24 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 09 06:44:48 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Tue Sep 04 08:12:44 -0700 2007 Thu Jan 24 14:37:36 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Sun Sep 27 01:16:26 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 27 01:19:20 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Dec 02 12:07:58 -0800 2009 Wed Dec 02 12:08:12 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Mon Nov 30 16:52:22 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 30 16:52:45 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Mon Nov 30 16:41:21 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 30 16:41:21 -0800 2009 2 0 false false Mon Nov 23 12:08:46 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 23 12:08:46 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Tue Nov 17 07:19:36 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 17 07:19:36 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Fri Nov 06 14:11:07 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 06 14:11:07 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Tue Nov 03 11:54:15 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 03 11:54:15 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Fri Nov 27 13:02:08 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 01 06:10:00 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 01 06:11:54 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sun Oct 18 07:51:16 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 16 13:03:05 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=71465