From the author of The Door, selected as one of the New York Times "10 Best Books of 2015," this is a heartwrenching tale about a group of friends and lovers torn apart by the German occupation of Bud
The Door is an unsettling exploration of the relationship between two very different women. Magda is a writer, educated, married to an academic, public-spirited, with an on-again-off-again relationshi
A major classic of 1930s literature, Antal Szerb's Journey by Moonlight (Utas es Holdvilag) is the fantastically moving and darkly funny story of a bourgeois businessman torn between duty and desire.'
"Just divine . . . the kind of book that makes you imagine the author has had private access to your own soul."—The GuardianThis is the first and only hardback gift edition of this classic title, in w
In August 1785, Paris buzzed with a scandal that had everything—an eminent churchman, a female fraudster, a part-time prostitute and the hated Queen herself. Its centrepiece was the most expensi
An NYRB Classics Original Venice between the wars, a Hungarian couple on their honeymoon. But “Venice is where the trouble began”—where Miha’ly finds that he prefers wandering backalleys to the com
