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Lázár

Lázár

Nelio Biedermann (born 2003)

Translated by Jamie Bulloch

English editions

In English

• Lázár

  MacLehose Press · United Kingdom · 26 March 2026 · Paperback · 304 pages

Everything begins, even the end, when Lajos von Lázár, the blond child with water-blue eyes, is born. His father the baron will never feel at ease with his son, as if the boy sensed his secret. With Lajos's birth in the forest castle, the twentieth century begins, which will change for ever the old life of the Lázár barons in southern Hungary. The fall of the Habsburg empire at first touches only their traditions, but everyone feels the tremors of the age, beautiful Mária as much as ghostly Uncle Imre. When Lajos comes into his inheritance in the 1920s, the old splendour seems to bloom once more, until totalitarian times cast their shadows over his children Eva and Pista.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

330 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, Family, War (assigned by AI)

Set in

Hungary, 1900s–1950s

First published

2025 by Rowohlt Berlin

Author's age

22 when first published

ISBN

9783737102261 (original)

9781529445343 (MacLehose Press, United Kingdom)