马洛伊·山多尔其人——

他出生于奥匈帝国的贵族家庭，然而一生困顿颠沛，流亡四十一年，客死异乡。他是二十世纪匈牙利文坛巨匠，一生笔耕不辍，著有五十六部作品，死后被追赠匈牙利文学最高荣誉“科舒特奖”。他亦是二十世纪历史的记录者、省思者和孤独的斗士。他的一生追求自由、公义，坚 持独立、高尚的精神人格。

他质朴的文字蕴藏着千军万马，情感磅礴而表达节制。他写婚姻与家庭的关系，友情与爱情的辩证，阶级和文化的攻守，冷静的叙述下暗流汹涌。德国文学批评界说他与茨威格齐名，另有批评家将他与托马斯•曼，穆齐尔，卡夫卡并列。因为他，二十世纪文坛大师被重新排序。

他是马洛伊·山多尔。

As traditions scatter on the winds of change and nations shift beneath our feet, the quintessential crisis of modernity is one of definition. Modernity, however, is not a single moment in time so much as every moment in time. In this way, Sandor Marai's lost novels from the first part of the 20th Century are prescient today as they were then. With the glittering age of the Austro-Hungarian Empire long past, two old men meet for a single, vital, and final survey of their lives, filled with love and friendship, but also loss and betrayal. Embers is a slim novel, a single claustrophobic dialogue in an isolated forest estate, but it ranges all across the world and the human experience over the course of a single night. Marai is a master of prose on par with or exceeding his peers Kafka, Hesse, and Mann. His style is brisk, fresh, and dazzlingly vivid. His mastery of the unsaid infuses the book with a sense of mystery and dark drama. With clarity and emotional force, Embers transcends its own generation and cuts to the core of what is modern life.