Lzr: A Novel

ISBN: 1668200554

Author: Biedermann, Nelio

Condition: New

Lzr is an exquisite and masterly pronouncement that a gifted young writer walks among us. -Patti SmithVirtuosic...riveting...audacious. -The New York TimesAn astonishingdisturbingly dreamlike (Daniel Kehlmann, The Director) debut, inspired by the authors own family story-a gothic, intergenerational family saga capturing the rise and fall of an aristocratic Hungarian family against the backdrop of the two world wars.At the turn of the 20th century, the Lzrs welcome their newest member in their rural summer estate, surrounded by a menacingly dark, enchanting forest. Lajos von Lzr is a baby boy with translucent skin and light-blue eyes who looks nothing like the rest of his family. Sndor, the imposing patriarch, is ashamed of his sons peculiarity. Ilona finds her baby brother quite ugly. Mria is terrified that her sons uncanny resemblance to the stagehand who died a couple weeks earlier might spell disaster. While Imre, Sndors brother whose otherworldly foresight is often confused for insanity, is struck by visions of a great catastrophe.Lajoss birth is emblematic of the many secrets, affairs, and peculiar otherworldly happenings that plague the Lzrs. As the decades go by, they will continue to fall prey to their desires, leading grand lives, and experiencing even greater tragedies as theyre swept by the tides of war and revolution that befall their country. But time and again, in the lighter years, extraordinary love and hope shine through.Masterfully written and deeply haunting, Lzr is a magisterial novel that presents the sweeping history of a nation through the lives of one extraordinary family.