The Rebels - Hardcover
It is May 1918, and a group of boys are poised on the brink of adulthood. With war sweeping Europe, theirs has become a ghost town: fathers, uncles and older brothers have been called to the front; the trains that arrive through snow-capped mountains bear the living with the dead.
As the boys’ graduation looms, so too does their fear of going to fight. Drawn together by the end of all that is familiar, yet repelled by what adulthood has come to represent, a small group of them invent a clandestine world. In their hideaway, with its codes, loves, jealousies, and own elaborate rules, these four test out their frustrations and their fears. Their games are darkly comic, wildly imaginative, increasingly subversive, and they attract the attention of a visitor to the town. By summer’s end, their secret is in ruins.
The Rebels is a story of complicity and betrayal, of youthful exuberance and dawning responsibility. Another rediscovered gem from the great Hungarian author of Embers, it is a haunting novel that traces the experience of friends who confuse growing up with dying and adulthood with war, and are jolted forever from the final, irretrievable summer of their adolescence.
‘Elegiac, sombre, musical, and gripping, Embers is a brilliant disquisition on friendship' Observer
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'(Marai) paints a vivid portrait of a generation of young men morally marooned...' -- Sunday Herald
'He observes a story, with little dialogue, and yet it expresses the core of human existence'
-- Yorkshire Gazette and Herald
'Historically fascinating'
-- Big Issue
'Marai's delicate brilliance lies in his characters, the economy and skill with which he conjures each to life.' -- Literary Review
'Marai's strengths of description retain their hallucinatory power.' -- Metro
'Powerfully emotive.' -- The First Post
'The Rebels wonderfully evokes the loss of innocence and childhood at the time of its passing.' -- Daily Mail
'The novel has a subtle poignancy that is at once spellbinding and bitterly affecting'
-- Daily Telegraph
'The psychology is sharp and the plot gripping'
-- The Independent
'He observes a story, with little dialogue, and yet it expresses the core of human existence'
-- Yorkshire Gazette and Herald
'Historically fascinating'
-- Big Issue
'Marai's delicate brilliance lies in his characters, the economy and skill with which he conjures each to life.' -- Literary Review
'Marai's strengths of description retain their hallucinatory power.' -- Metro
'Powerfully emotive.' -- The First Post
'The Rebels wonderfully evokes the loss of innocence and childhood at the time of its passing.' -- Daily Mail
'The novel has a subtle poignancy that is at once spellbinding and bitterly affecting'
-- Daily Telegraph
'The psychology is sharp and the plot gripping'
-- The Independent
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- PublisherPicador
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0330454544
- ISBN 13 9780330454544
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages288
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