The Rebels

An early novel from the great rediscovered Hungarian writer Sandor Marai TheRebels is a haunting story of a group of alienated boys on the cusp of adultlifeand ... » 

An early novel from the great rediscovered Hungarian writer Sandor Marai TheRebels is a haunting story of a group of alienated boys on the cusp of adultlifeand possibly deathduring World War I. It is the summer of 1918 andfour boys approaching graduation are living in a ghost town bereft of fathersuncles and older brothers who are off fighting at the front. The boys knowthey will very soon be sent to join their elders and in their final weeks offreedom they begin acting out their frustrations and fears in a series ofsubversive games and petty thefts. But when they attract the attention of astranger in townan actor with a traveling theater companytheir games andtheir lives begin to move in a direction they could not have predicted andcannot control and one that reveals them to be strangers to one another.Resisting and defying adulthood they find themselves still subject to itsbaffling power even in their attempted rebellion. «