When Mihaly finally succeeds in seducing Erzsi away from her first husband, he confidently takes her on honeymoon to Italy. Within days of their arrival, things start to fall apart. Embarking on a chaotic and bizarre journey around Italy, the death-haunted and erotic elements of his past converge, and he, like Erzsi, has to choose his own fate.
Antal Szerb's early 20th century classic deals with the eternally modern themes of convention and revolution, rationality and passion, cut through by death and sex.
