Back from Troy, the 'divine' Helen looks with fresh eyes at her foul-mouthed hero-husband; a girl in a mountain village seeks reassurance about her arranged marriage; a drunken mandarin invites the devil to tea; and a German princess discovers that people actually drink goat's milk. These delightful tales exhibit Bánffy's customary blend of high seriousness and subtle humour, his rich imagination and his remarkably wide-ranging sympathies. Appearing in English for the first time, in finely nuanced translations by the prize-winning Len Rix, The Enchanted Night furthers the writer's growing reputation as one of the most compelling European writers of the twentieth century.

"The Tolstoy of Transylvania... Bánffy's trilogy is just about as good as any fiction I have ever read" - Daily Telegraph

"The elegiac wisdom of his writing makes him one of those people whose life you wish could have ended in something other than calamity... a great storyteller" - Guardian

"A genuine case of a rediscovered classic. The force of Bánffy's enthusiasm produces an effect rather like that of the best Trollope novels, but coming from a past world that now seems excitingly exotic" - Times Literary Supplement

"Bánffy's masterpiece resembles Proust, [yet] he writes with all the psychological acumen of Dostoevsky" - The London Magazine

"If you've not yet read Bánffy, you are to be envied" - Standpoint