The Rebels
The Rebels by Sandor Marai, published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group on March 11, 2008, is a reprint edition comprising 288 pages in English. This early novel from the Hungarian writer presents a haunting narrative centered on a group of alienated boys navigating the complexities of impending adulthood during World War I. Set in the summer of 1918, the story unfolds in a ghost town where the boys, soon to be sent to the front lines, engage in subversive games and petty thefts as they grapple with their fears and frustrations.
Readers will find a poignant exploration of youth and the struggle against the inevitable transition into adulthood. As the boys’ actions draw the attention of a traveling theater actor, their lives take unexpected turns, revealing deeper connections and alienations among them. The narrative delves into themes of rebellion and the pressures of growing up, capturing the essence of their fleeting freedom against the backdrop of war.
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An early novel from the great rediscovered Hungarian writer Sándor Márai, The Rebels is a haunting story of a group of alienated boys on the cusp of adult life—and possibly death—during World War I.
It is the summer of 1918, and four boys approaching graduation are living in a ghost town bereft of fathers, uncles, and older brothers, who are off fighting at the front. The boys know they will very soon be sent to join their elders, and in their final weeks of freedom they begin acting out their frustrations and fears in a series of subversive games and petty thefts. But when they attract the attention of a stranger in town—an actor with a traveling theater company—their games, and their lives, begin to move in a direction they could not have predicted and cannot control, and one that reveals them to be strangers to one another. Resisting and defying adulthood, they find themselves still subject to its baffling power even in their attempted rebellion.
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