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It is 1900, give or take a few years. The Vajkays--call them Mother and Father--live in Sarszeg, a dead-end burg in the provincial heart of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Father retired some years ago to devote his days to genealogical research and quaint questions of heraldry. Mother keeps house. Both are utterly enthralled with their daughter, Skylark. Unintelligent, unimaginative, unattractive, and unmarried, Skylark cooks and sews for her parents and anchors the unremitting tedium of their lives.

Now Skylark is going away, for one week only, it's true, but a week that yawns endlessly...

Kornél Esti, schillernder Kaffeehausliterat, ist überall zuhause, in der Provinz wie in Metropolen. So vielfältig wie die Orte und Menschen, die er aufsucht, sind die Abenteuer, die er so frech wie bravourös besteht. Paris gilt Estis besondere Liebe - die nicht alle seine Landsleute teilen. So zwingt ihn sein Gefährte Bandi in der Hochburg verfeinerter Lebensart zu schlichter magyarischer Gastlichkeit. Ein anderer, ehemals Zigarrenspitzenfabrikant, bringt Esti in die Bredouille, als er nach seinem Bankrott spurlos untertaucht und eine Schar von Angehörigen und Gläubigern zurücklässt....

The Central European Classics Series started when Timothy Garton Ash, general editor of the series, began to note down titles recommended to him by local writers in dim cafes in Budapest and Prague, in the heyday of political transition in East-Central Europe in 1989-1990. Garton Ash's aim, to take these works of nineteenth-and early twentieth century classic fiction 'out of the ghetto', onto the shelves of Western booksellers, and into the consciousness of Western readers has been successfully achieved. The series got completed in 2002, reissued with new covers in 2003.