Candle Ember (work by Malloy Sandor)
About This Novel
In the empty manor, the owner, the old general, welcomed a rare visitor, an old friend who had once been acquainted with him. In the dim living room, the general and the visitor sat opposite each other with candles, talking all night long, remembering the general's long-lost wife, and judging a triangle relationship intertwined with love and friendship, loyalty and betrayal. Chaos and turmoil surged deep in the hearts of the two old friends, and the embers of lust and hatred continued to smolder. In a gripping and fierce argument, Malloy uses somber and elegiac words to remember the bygone era of empire, as well as the consequent disappearance of aristocratic virtue and gentlemanly friendship. The sadness when the Austro-Hungarian Empire faced the decline, and the wavering of people's traditional morality when the world order collapsed, are clearly reflected in the lines.
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Official(5)Scraped 11d ago
I heard it's good, but I don't want to watch it now😊
I have always liked this author, but I have never read this book... Today this book appears in the recommendations on my homepage, which is a surprise.
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In this book, two old men talked all night long, describing their loneliness and waiting for forty-one years. They also interpreted what happened in the past with a lifetime of experience and wisdom (perhaps the word "interpretation" is not a good word). After reading this book, it feels like an old man has used the summary of his life to give some advice to young people like me.
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The content description is a bit boring, but the central point of the article is good
I read this book after reading the introduction of Liang Wendao's One Thousand and One Nights. When I read it for the first time, I was attracted by the love triangle and the betrayal of a close friend. But after reading it again, I deeply realized the author's deep nostalgia for the good old times. This is clearly about Maslow himself, a kind of remembrance of the beautiful virtues of the old aristocracy. The end of 1939, where the story is set, was also a very iconic era. To be honest, Maslow's writing is not very beautiful, but the content really moved me.
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Official(5)Scraped 11d ago
I heard it's good, but I don't want to watch it now😊
I have always liked this author, but I have never read this book... Today this book appears in the recommendations on my homepage, which is a surprise.
like
In this book, two old men talked all night long, describing their loneliness and waiting for forty-one years. They also interpreted what happened in the past with a lifetime of experience and wisdom (perhaps the word "interpretation" is not a good word). After reading this book, it feels like an old man has used the summary of his life to give some advice to young people like me.
Yes
9393939393
The content description is a bit boring, but the central point of the article is good
I read this book after reading the introduction of Liang Wendao's One Thousand and One Nights. When I read it for the first time, I was attracted by the love triangle and the betrayal of a close friend. But after reading it again, I deeply realized the author's deep nostalgia for the good old times. This is clearly about Maslow himself, a kind of remembrance of the beautiful virtues of the old aristocracy. The end of 1939, where the story is set, was also a very iconic era. To be honest, Maslow's writing is not very beautiful, but the content really moved me.
