Set on the Hortobágy plain near Debreczin in the days before any train crossed it, when the two-wheeled mill still clattered in the river, this short novel follows the herdsmen of the open puszta. Rivalry, pride and love for a girl drive the plot from the first dawn ride across the grassland to a sickbed in town.
A vivid, affectionate picture of Hungarian rural life by the country’s great nineteenth-century novelist. Download the free EPUB.