"The Mermaids" 1956 BOROS, Eva Madras Showcasing the era's forward-thinking vision

Showcasing the era's forward-thinking vision

considered the grandest private house in France

and is emblazoned with the words Before Truth

When their house was narrowly missed by a stick of bombs

and out of this ferment emerged an autonomous Russian style

"The Mermaids" 1956 BOROS, Eva Madras Showcasing the era's forward-thinking visionBOROS, Eva[216] pp. Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, Inc. 19568 1 4" x 5 1 2"Jacket design by Gray Foy VG VGBoros was a Hungarian living in London who wrote in English. This was her first novel. Presumably translated from the Hungarian, this novel of a tuberculosis sanatorium is shaded by the intimations of mortality; death is a haunting presence and love a recessive, evasive illusion. Certainly for Aladar who meets Lalla Pirola only once in Budapest, returns