Travelling to Italy on their honeymoon, Erszi and Mihály are ready to take in all the beauties and pleasures of the country. But when they reach Venice, it is clear that Mihály prefers to roam around
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An NYRB Classics Original Venice between the wars, a Hungarian couple on their honeymoon. But “Venice is where the trouble began”—where Miha’ly finds that he prefers wandering backalleys to the com
