"The Mermaids" 1956 BOROS, Eva Madras Cyril Smith

Cyril Smith

and is emblazoned with the words Before Truth

and out of this ferment emerged an autonomous Russian style

The drama takes place amongst the houses and parties of Mayfair and ends with one of the characters dashing off in a taxi to the new Dorchester Hotel

"The Mermaids" 1956 BOROS, Eva Madras Cyril SmithBOROS, Eva[216] pp. Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, Inc. 19568 1 4" x 5 1 2"Jacket design by Gray Foy VG VGBoros was a Hungarian living in London who wrote in English. This was her first novel. Presumably translated from the Hungarian, this novel of a tuberculosis sanatorium is shaded by the intimations of mortality; death is a haunting presence and love a recessive, evasive illusion. Certainly for Aladar who meets Lalla Pirola only once in Budapest, returns