num_pages: 400
description: Set just after World War I An Ermine in Czernopol centers on the tragicomic fate of Tildy an erstwhile officer in the army of the now-defunct Austro-Hungarian Empire determined to defend the virtue of his cheating sister-in-law at any cost. Rezzori surrounds Tildy with a host of fantastic characters engaging us in a kaleidoscopic experience of a city where nothing is as it appearsa city of discordant voices of wild ugliness and heartbreaking disappointment in which however laughter was everywhere part of the air we breathed a crackling tension in the atmosphere always ready to erupt in showers of sparks or discharge itself in thunderous peals.
language: English
title: An Ermine in Czernopol
publisher: NYRB Classics