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This is a quartet of novellas including "Accountant", "Batorsag and Szerelem", "City of Broken Dreams" and "The Palace Thief". In the title story, a teacher spots the seeds of corruption in a wayward student and watches with fascinated horror as the boy, and then the man flourishes.
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- PublisherBloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0747516820
- ISBN 13 9780747516828
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages240
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