{"product_id":"from-beginning-to-end-a-novel-with-the-spell","title":"From Beginning to End: A Novel [with] The Spell","description":"138 pp. Translated from the Hungarian by Ilona Duczynska. Two novels in one: From Beginning to End; The Spell. Jozsef Lengyel is one of Hungary's most distinguished contemporary writers, now achieving international recognition. Under the Stalinist regime he spent eighteen years of his life in Soviet prisons and labour camps and in exile in Siberia. The two novellas in this volume crystallise these experiences, and form his most important work so far. ***From Beginning to End (at first banned in Hungary) depicts the human degradation and suffering in a Siberian labour camp during the second world war, describing how prisoners face the continual threat of death through starvation. With irony Lengyel describes camp conditions and the terrible return journey from Siberia. ***The Spell is set in a Siberian kolkhoz where Jozsef Lengyel worked in exile as a field-guard and charcoal-burner. This fable of loneliness recounts two men's rivalry for the affection of a dog.' 'Elusive, frightening and with the inevitability of a nightmare.'","brand":"Prentice-Hall, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41892265132102,"sku":"2344921","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1232\/9510\/files\/2344921.jpg?v=1719798103","url":"https:\/\/ym-demo.myshopify.com\/products\/from-beginning-to-end-a-novel-with-the-spell","provider":"Yesterday's Muse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}