This startling portrayal of a love triangle, set in Hungary between the world wars, is told from all three perspectives. Peter and Ilonka are a wealthy couple in bourgeois society with an outwardly perfect marriage. And yet, to the insecure Ilonka, her taste is never elegant and refined enough and her looks are never fair enough to fully win the love of her husband. Peter has long been tormented by a secret- he is in love with Judit, a peasant and servant in his childhood home. For Judit, however, even Peter's affection cannot transcend that which she longs for most--the prospect of her own freedom and a future without the constraints of the society that has ensnared all three in a vortex of love and loss. A rediscovered masterwork from famed Hungarian novelist Sandor Marai, Portraits of a Marriage tracks the lifelong entanglement of a man and two women haunted by class differences and misdirected longings. Peter and Ilonka are a wealthy couple whose outwardly perfect marriage is undone by secrets. The insecure Ilonka believes she can never be elegant and refined enough for her husband, while Peter has long been tormented by his forbidden love for Judit, a peasant and servant in his childhood home. What Judit longs for most, however, is freedom from the constraints of the society that has ensnared all three in a vortex of love and loss. Set against the backdrop of Hungary between the wars, in a world on the verge of dramatic change, this exquisite novel offers further posthumous evidence of Marai's brilliance. Translated from the Hungarian by George Szirtes