Careless Feast

by Mara Rostov

A CARELESS FEAST by Mara Rostov The lush but precarious tapestry of affluent Vienna is torn to shreds by the stark reality of World War II in this sensuous story of the patriarch Enerde and his six... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0399130683
• ISBN13: 9780399130687
• Release Date: August 1985
• Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group
• Length: 335 Pages

Customer Reviews

A Feast of Sin

This novel is a sensual journey through the lives of an aristocratic Austrian family through the end of the second World War and its aftermath. The vices and crimes of the highest class are described in luxuriant detail, beginning with an illicit affair which leads to accidental incest and finally the ultimate sacrifice of love. The story finds its focus on the extraordinary beauty and intelligence of the family's six children, and their unnatural isolation from society and world events. Their eventual release only makes them vulnerable to the revenge of the victims of their family's centuries-long careless feast.