The vibrant Jewish quarter of Budapest provides the setting for these stories by Hungarian twins Giorgio and Nicola Pressburger. Holocaust survivors and refugees from Communism, the brothers settled in Italy after 1956; and both pursued successful ca...
Five compelling case studies by an Italian film director are united by their obsession with the mysteries of the human condition of illness that lie beyond the certainties of science and language. 12,500 first printing. $15,000 ad/promo....
This award-winning collection confirms Giorgio Pressburger as a European master of the short story. Each tale is wondrous in its situation and its telling, but each refined truth it contains is hauntingly familiar in its resonance. In the title story...