A Book Of Memories
$37.96
- Paperback
720 pages
- Release Date
7 August 1998
Summary
Acclaimed Hungarian novelist Péter Nádas weaves together three voices to blow the history of his country wide open.
A Book of Memories is made up of three first-person narratives:
- The first, that of a young Hungarian writer and his fated love for a German poet; we also learn of the narrator’s adolescence in Budapest, when he experiences the downfall of his once upper-class but now pro-Communist family.
- A second memoir, alternating with the first, is a n…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099766315 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099766310 |
| Author: | Péter Nádas |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 720 |
| Release Date: | 7 August 1998 |
| Weight: | 514g |
| Dimensions: | 38mm x 131mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
Original and exhilarating work that demands to be read again
Original and exhilarating work that demands to be read again * Sunday Times *
The greatest novel written in our time, one of the great books of the century – Susan Sontag
One of the most important novels of our time * Times Literary Supplement *
The monumental event of recent Hungarian history, the fated uprising of 1956, is accounted for in the most affecting manner imaginable in these haunted pages * Daily Telegraph *
What makes this Book of Memories so memorable is the sheer quality of the prose, its subtlety and intelligence, which shines through what seems an elegant and unobtrusively American translation * The Times *
Péter Nádas
Peter Nadas was born in Budapest in 1942. Among his works translated into English are the novels A Book of Memories, The End of a Family Story, and Love and Parallel Stories; a collection of stories and essays, Fire and Knowledge; and two pieces of short fiction, A Lovely Tale of Photography and Peter Nadas: Own Death. He lives with his wife in Gombosszeg, Hungary.
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