{"product_id":"9781803096148","title":"Mrs Kleofas's Rooster : Three Novellas - John Batki","description":"\u003cp\u003eA trio of darkly elegant, women-centric novellas from a master of twentieth-century Hungarian literature. �Mrs Kleofas' Rooster brings together three captivating novellas by Gyula Kr�dy, originally written in the 1920s and now available in English for the first time. Each story centers on a woman protagonist: a timeless adventuress, a resilient single mother, and a seductive Budapest femme fatale, respectively. In the title novella, a roguish narrator listens to the thrilling life story of an ageless, mysterious woman whose journey takes her from a childhood of suffering to a career as a cunning accomplice in daring schemes. The next story, NN, follows the life of a steadfast single mother, Juliska, amid the rhythms of village life. In Autumn Meeting, Krudy's sharp wit unfolds through Rizili, a charming yet ruthless socialite who leads a suspended jockey on an intoxicating night through Budapest's City Park.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Batki","offers":[{"title":"244 pages \/ 05\/05\/2026 \/ Modern \u0026 contemporary fiction (post c 1945)","offer_id":57110618014071,"sku":"9781803096148","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/gulpfictionbooks.com\/products\/9781803096148","provider":"Gulp Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}