Candles Burn Until the End

“Only you can answer that question, and now that all that is gone, you have answered it: with your life.
One always answers important questions with one’s whole life in the end.”
As World War II rages on, General Henrik, now old and living a solitary life, awaits the friend of his youth who disappeared forty-one years ago. This friend, with whom he had formed a close bond in his childhood and youth, has questions to answer before he dies. First published in 1942 but discovered and translated into many languages ​​after the author’s death, Candles Burn Out is undoubtedly Márai’s most acclaimed novel.

A meditation on friendship, jealousy, betrayal, and human nature that will not be forgotten for a long time. A brilliant novel with

a deep undercurrent of tension and elegantly woven moral and metaphysical questions . The New York Times Book Review Sándor Márai has written a haunting, magnificent ghost novel; the lament of survivors who have turned truth into a purgatory for themselves… Thomas Wirtz, Frankfurter Allgemeine