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Lajos Zilahy
A young diplomat returns from Barcelona devastated by parting with his beloved wife. And yet, he soon meets a new love.
But when he is about to crown that relationship with marriage, his former girlfriend returns. He is a man with a deep sense of honor and torn between two women, not finding another way out, he takes a revolver...
The central character of this novel is Anna, a woman with three children and a writer husband, obsessively preoccupied with writing a book about the Czech storyteller Bohumil Hrabal.
The book "When the soul dies" by Lajos Zilahi is a poignant and deep testimony of the suffering that the author experienced and then immortalized in a certain part of his work.