The Monkey and other stories [Paperback]

The short stories in this collection, from the tale of the idle young man dawdling pleasantly in Venice to the Romanian villager meditating revenge on his tormentor, draw on the authors experiences of life, love, sacrifice, betrayal and courage, and reveal, as a recurring leitmotif, an indomitable will to survive.TALKING NOTHING No mere aristocrat with a penchant for writing, but a writer who has earned his place in Hungarian literature.