Imre

An iced coffee, a military band, and one brilliant pair of hazel eyes: Oswald means only to pass an hour alone in a Hungarian café garden. Instead, a stranger’s voice turns small talk into the first confidences of a life-changing friendship.

In the early twentieth century, a chance meeting in Szent-Istvánhely draws the wandering British narrator into the inner life of Imre, a young Hungarian officer hemmed in by routine, poor pay, and a troubled family atmosphere. Their talk wanders from music and art toward the feelings and desires that polite society would rather leave unnamed. As Oswald and Imre find an unusual ease in one another’s company, honesty becomes both a comfort and a risk in a world quick to judge what it does not understand. How much of themselves can they dare to reveal?

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