Shimmering Details, Volume II
A Memoir
- Hardcover
528 pages
- Release Date
12 March 2024
Summary
The magnum opus of one of Europe’s greatest living writers.
In Shimmering Details, Volume II, Péter Nádas delves deeper into his and his parents’ lives during the tumultuous years spanning the rise of Hungarian communism in 1948 to the brutal suppression of the 1956 uprising. Zeroing in on this critical period—which overlapped with the formative years of his childhood—Nádas concludes his monumental history of a family whose own experiences and fortunes are deeply intertwined …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780374611644 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0374611645 |
| Author: | Péter Nádas, Péter Nádas; Translated from the Hungarian by Judith Sollosy, Translated from the Hungarian by Judith Sollosy |
| Publisher: | Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc |
| Imprint: | Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 528 |
| Release Date: | 12 March 2024 |
| Weight: | 760g |
| Dimensions: | 245mm x 170mm x 43mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
“Nádas, one of the greatest living writers, recognizes, on one hand, that there is no escape from or outside of history–its vast horrors and deep ironies–and simultaneously that the imaginative writer has a responsibility to subjectivity: the minute particulars of experience that are too fine-grained for the historian tracking the rise and fall of nations and empires.” –Matthew Gasda, Compact
About The Author
Péter Nádas
Péter Nádas was born in Budapest in 1942. Among his works translated into English are the novels Parallel Stories, A Book of Memories, The End of a Family Story, and Love, as well as a collection of stories and essays, Fire and Knowledge; A Lovely Tale of Photography; and Péter Nádas: Own Death. He lives with his wife in Gombosszeg, in western Hungary.
Judith Sollosy is an editor and an academic and literary translator who is best known for her translations of the contemporary Hungarian authors Péter Esterházy, Mihály Kornis, Péter Nádas, and István Örkény.
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