Emily's Regent's Park Walking Book Club - July - Journey by Moonlight

On his honeymoon in Venice, Mihály manages to lose his wife before embarking on a picaresque journey through Italy, attempting to escape his middle-class life and reconnect to an intense friendship of his adolescence. Funny, bizarre, and psychologically fascinating, Journey by Moonlight is a beloved Hungarian classic, first published in 1937 and brilliantly translated by Len Rix into English in 2000. Antal Szerb, born to assimilated Jewish parents and baptised a Catholic, was murdered at Balf concentration camp in January 1945, aged 43.

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N.B. Please ensure that you have read the book BEFORE coming on the walk - or it risks spoiling the event for other walkers. If you've don't quite have time to read the book, please consider instead joining the Monday evening Zoom, for which reading the book isn't a prerequisite.

Host or Publisher Emily Rhodes