Journey by Moonlight

A wonderful hidden treasure from Central Europe named book of the year in The Times, Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian and the Daily Telegraph in the U.K. "A great novel... Antal Szerb belongs with the master novelists of the 20th century."-Paul Bailey, Daily Telegraph "No one who has read this book has failed to love it."-Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian "A burning book, a major book."-George Szirtes, Times Literary Supplement Antal Szerb was born in 1901 in Budapest. A prolific scholar who wrote books on drama and poetry, essays, studies of Ibsen and Blake and histories of English, Hungarian and world literature as well as two novels, he died in a concentration camp in January, 1945.