A Wunderkind’s Best-Selling Nostalgia | The New Yorker
“Lázár” moves quickly, scarcely leaving readers time to settle into one moment before whisking them off to the next. How else could it race through the most eventful half century of European history in fewer than three hundred pages? Before long, the First World War is over, and Ilona and Lajos are adults. Ilona marries…