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A Brand New York Review Books OriginalSet soon after World-War I, An Ermine in Czernopol centers around the tragicomic destiny of Tildy, an erstwhile specialist in the military of the now-defunct Austro-Hungarian Empire, decided to protect the advantage of his unfaithful sibling-in-law at any price. Rezzori encompasses Tildy using a number of wonderful figures, getting us in a kaleidoscopic expertise of the city where nothing is really as it appears—a city of discordant sounds, of crazy ugliness and tragic frustration, by which, nevertheless, “laughter was everywhere, area of the air we breathed, a crackling pressure within the environment, usually prepared to appear in showers of sparks or release itself in thunderous peals.”