'Evening in Byzantium' (1973) is the novel that brought its author worldwide fame.
The story of an aging and unconventional American film producer, who, at the end of a illustrious career, finds himself at a crossroads. Fame and success are in the past, his marriage has fallen apart, his children are long grown up, and the future seems very uncertain... All that remains is a film script he wrote, with which he hopes to restore his faith in his own abilities and once again plunge into the world of big cinema... Perhaps the time has come to reevaluate life and look at it from a different perspective?
This book is about choosing a life path and the possibility of changing it, in which the face of an entire era is discernible behind the fate of an individual. It is still a gripping read.