Stone Tablets

Translated from the Polish by Stephanie Kraft / 737-page paperback / 5.5" x 8.5" / ISBN 978-1-58988-107-5 / Publication Date: May 2016 “A novel of epic scope and ambition.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "A masterwork."—Wall Street Journal An influential Polish classic celebrates 50 years—and its first English edition (A Reading Guide to Stone Tablets) As Stone Tablets opens, Istvan Terey, a poet and World War II veteran, is serving as cultural attaché with the Hungarian embassy in Delhi just a few months before his country is torn apart by the Hungarian Uprising of 1956. He is personable and popular with Indians and Europeans, communists and capitalists, but his outspoken criticisms of corruption in the Hungarian government and the embassy threaten to undermine his career. Meanwhile, he has fallen in love with Margit, an Australian ophthalmologist working in India, who is still living through a tragedy of her own: her fiancé died under torture during World War II. Draining heat, bril