Journey by Moonlight

Mihaly and Erszi are a couple from Budapest on honeymoon in Italy. They are "accidentally" separated at a railway station and Mihaly starts a mystical and dazzling journey, first in search of a childhood friend who has become a priest and then plunging into a sensual Rome. Meanwhile Erszi leaves for Paris to contemplate her failed marriage and meets a stranger who will initiate her into life "beyond the wall."

Author Biography: Szerb was a scholar and literary historian of considerable eminence in Hungary. His History of Hungarian Literature is still considered authoritative some 50 years after his death in a concentration camp. He left two novels, Journey by Moonlight and The Pendragon Legend.