Embers Los Angeles TimesFeature including interview with editor Carol Janeway New York Review of Books review Financial Times review/feature Sndor Mrai was born in Kassa, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in 1900. He rose to fame as one of the leading literary novelists in Hungary in the 1930s. Profoundly antifascist, he survived World War II, but persecution by the Communists drove him from the ...