Book description
This novel paints an unrivaled portrait of the vanished world of
pre-1914 Hungary, as seen through the eyes of two young Transylvanian
cousins, Count Balint Abady and Count Laszlo Gyeroffy.
Miklós Bánffy (1873-1950) was variously a diplomat, MP and foreign
minister in 1921/22 when he signed the peace treaty with the United
States and obtained Hungary's admission to the League of Nations. He was
responsible for organizing the last Habsburg coronation, that of King
Karl in 1916. His famous Transylvanian Trilogy, They Were Counted, They
Were Found Wanting, They Were Divided was first published in Budapest in
the 1930s.
