St. Peter’s Umbrella
I have been incorporating more fiction into my reading as that was my first love. More coming … The list is already growing of what I’ve read so far …. And, there’s a fiction or two wanting to be birthed from my heart.
A novel written in 1895 by one of the most popular story-tellers of Hungarian literature, Kálmán Mikszáth (1847-1910). This was one of the most popular he ever wrote. Wonderful story that held my attention. Nearing the end I couldn’t put it down as I wanted to know how it all unfolded. Great story built from the ground up surrounding an elusive and honored red umbrella.
From the book flap: Set in a small village in Upper Hungary, the main line of the story concerns the treasure-hunt of Gyuri Wibra, whose eccentric father put his fortune in an open bank-draft and hit it in the handle of an umbrella, and Gyuri finding true love with the girl who was once miraculously protected by it. The complications arising out of the search for the umbrella provide Mikszáth with an opportunity to work on two different levels – devising an exciting hunt for the inheritance and at the same time observing the significance, in terms of mass psychology, of a seemingly worthless object. St. Peter’s Umbrella, it is said, was so much admired by Theodore Roosevelt, that he visited Mikszáth during his European trip in 1910 to express his admiration.
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UK Amazon link: https://amzn.to/2E259SU