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    The Mountain
    The Forest
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    Andrassy út Series

    By David Antonelli

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    About this series

    Set in Yugoslavia during the Croatian War of Independence, The Mountain opens when American journalist John Anderson discovers a few days before Serbian troops are due to take over their village that his musician wife Anna was involved in yearlong affair that she had just ended. He forgives her at first as they are in the midst of desperately planning their escape through a war zone to the border to Hungary. But only a few days into their journey they meet a soldier and his distrust of Anna re-emerges when she and the soldier seem to have mysteriously disappeared together. In a fit of jealousy he abandons her altogether on suspicion of further cheating and ventures forth across a mountain on an odyssey of self-discovery. When he encounters a massacre in a small village he starts to wonder if he has made a mistake and unwittingly endangered her life. He then tries desperately to find her and save her from the tragic fate he believes he helped create. Like Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls in its portrayal of war and its effect on human relationships, but with a deeper sense of psychological introspection, The Mountain is Antonelli's poetic novel to date. The Mountain is the second part of the Andrássy ut trilogy, which begins with The Forest and is a series of three thematically related novellas with American protagonists based in Eastern Europe exploring love and deception against the background of modern life.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDavid Antonelli
    Release dateSep 5, 2011
    The Mountain
    The Forest

    Titles in the series (2)

    • 1

      The Forest
      The Forest

      The Forest

      David Antonelli
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      Fresh out of an unsatisfying relationship with a younger woman John Martin, New York advertising executive, is suddenly possessed by a strange and irresistible desire to cross the globe to Budapest and strike up a new friendship with his ex-wife, with whom he hasn't spoken in years. Plunged into the mysterious world of Budapest just after the collapse of the Iron Curtain, he falls in love with a waitress while also inadvertently reawakening and expanding intimacy with his ex-wife. He quickly becomes the apex of two conflicting love triangles, but his repeated trips to Budapest only deepen the confusion and sense of longing set off by a series of dreams and random events that he mistakenly takes as his emotional guide, ultimately revealing the absurdity of his quest, which was doomed to fail from the outset. The Forest is a sumptuous and captivating novel, rich in psychological insights and depth of linguistic expression. Death in Venice for Generation X meets Richard Ford’s Women with Men. One customer reviewer said of The Forest: “The psychology is flawless...all actions and conclusions are born out of the protagonist contemplating the apparently meaningless events in the outside world; he is driven by the impetus of vividly described moments that give the story's psychology an almost Zen feeling. Through the psychological authenticity of the protagonists's thoughts and emotions, I became so much involved with the story that once I got used to the relatively slow pace, I couldn't put the book down and finished it in two long reads.”

      Fresh out of an unsatisfying relationship with a younger woman John Martin, New York advertising executive, is suddenly possessed by a strange and irresistible desire to cross the globe to Budapest and strike up a new friendship with his ex-wife, with whom he hasn't spoken in years. Plunged into the mysterious world of Budapest just after the collapse of the Iron Curtain, he falls in love with a waitress while also inadvertently reawakening and expanding intimacy with his ex-wife. He quickly becomes the apex of two conflicting love triangles, but his repeated trips to Budapest only deepen the confusion and sense of longing set off by a series of dreams and random events that he mistakenly takes as his emotional guide, ultimately revealing the absurdity of his quest, which was doomed to fail from the outset. The Forest is a sumptuous and captivating novel, rich in psychological insights and depth of linguistic expression. Death in Venice for Generation X meets Richard Ford’s Women with Men. One customer reviewer said of The Forest: “The psychology is flawless...all actions and conclusions are born out of the protagonist contemplating the apparently meaningless events in the outside world; he is driven by the impetus of vividly described moments that give the story's psychology an almost Zen feeling. Through the psychological authenticity of the protagonists's thoughts and emotions, I became so much involved with the story that once I got used to the relatively slow pace, I couldn't put the book down and finished it in two long reads.”

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      The Mountain
      The Mountain

      The Mountain

      David Antonelli
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      Set in Yugoslavia during the Croatian War of Independence, The Mountain opens when American journalist John Anderson discovers a few days before Serbian troops are due to take over their village that his musician wife Anna was involved in yearlong affair that she had just ended. He forgives her at first as they are in the midst of desperately planning their escape through a war zone to the border to Hungary. But only a few days into their journey they meet a soldier and his distrust of Anna re-emerges when she and the soldier seem to have mysteriously disappeared together. In a fit of jealousy he abandons her altogether on suspicion of further cheating and ventures forth across a mountain on an odyssey of self-discovery. When he encounters a massacre in a small village he starts to wonder if he has made a mistake and unwittingly endangered her life. He then tries desperately to find her and save her from the tragic fate he believes he helped create. Like Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls in its portrayal of war and its effect on human relationships, but with a deeper sense of psychological introspection, The Mountain is Antonelli's poetic novel to date. The Mountain is the second part of the Andrássy ut trilogy, which begins with The Forest and is a series of three thematically related novellas with American protagonists based in Eastern Europe exploring love and deception against the background of modern life.

      Set in Yugoslavia during the Croatian War of Independence, The Mountain opens when American journalist John Anderson discovers a few days before Serbian troops are due to take over their village that his musician wife Anna was involved in yearlong affair that she had just ended. He forgives her at first as they are in the midst of desperately planning their escape through a war zone to the border to Hungary. But only a few days into their journey they meet a soldier and his distrust of Anna re-emerges when she and the soldier seem to have mysteriously disappeared together. In a fit of jealousy he abandons her altogether on suspicion of further cheating and ventures forth across a mountain on an odyssey of self-discovery. When he encounters a massacre in a small village he starts to wonder if he has made a mistake and unwittingly endangered her life. He then tries desperately to find her and save her from the tragic fate he believes he helped create. Like Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls in its portrayal of war and its effect on human relationships, but with a deeper sense of psychological introspection, The Mountain is Antonelli's poetic novel to date. The Mountain is the second part of the Andrássy ut trilogy, which begins with The Forest and is a series of three thematically related novellas with American protagonists based in Eastern Europe exploring love and deception against the background of modern life.

    Author

    David Antonelli

    David Antonelli was born in Chicago in 1963. He was educated at The University of Alberta, Oxford, Caltech, and MIT. In 2010 he published his first novel The Narcissist, followed by The False Man in 2011. His film credits include Inbetween (2008), which was nominated for awards at several international film festivals, Finding Rudolf Steiner (Documentary, Official Selection Calgary International Film Festival 2006, now available on DVD), Lucifer Gnosis (short), Forever (16 mm short), Dreaming (16 mm short, named in top three at the Montreal International Student Film Festival, 1989), La Toyson D’Or (16 mm short), and The Chalk Elephant (16 mm short). He currently lives in Cardiff and teaches at the University of Glamorgan.

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