Sárarany

In the parched village of Kiskara on the Great Hungarian Plain, Turi Dani has already conquered poverty through marriage, transforming himself from a penniless farmer into a man of means. But wealth has only sharpened his appetite. He wants a noblewoman. He wants count's land. He wants to stop being the man he was born and become the man he's decided he deserves to be. His wife Erzsi watches his ambitions grow like summer weeds, untamed and indifferent to the ground that nourishes them. She knows what Dani seems incapable of learning: that some ambitions devour the very thing they claim to seek. Móricz renders the Hungarian puszta with merciless clarity, its endless horizons and crushing summers become mirrors for Dani's restless hunger. This is a novel about what happens when a man decides he is too extraordinary for the life that made him, and the price his family pays for his soaring dreams. For readers who cherish unflinching portraits of human desire and its consequences.