Embers

Synopsis

'wonderful. Immensely moving' daily telegraphas darkness settles on a forgotten castle at the foot of the carpathian mountains, two men sit down to a final meal together. They have not seen one another in forty-one years. At their last meeting, in the company of a beautiful woman, an unspoken act of betrayal left all three lives shattered - and each of them alone. Tonight, as wine stirs the blood, it is time to talk of old passions and that last, fateful meeting. 'extraordinary. Elegiac, sombre, musical and gripping. An immensely wise book' observer'a masterpiece.