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A Book of Memories
Peter Nadas
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Description for A Book of Memories
Paperback. A psychological novel that is a coming-to-terms with the ghosts, corpses and repressed nightmares of Europe's recent past. It is made up of three first-person narratives integrated into a work of tragic intensity. Num Pages: 720 pages. BIC Classification: DN; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 142 x 44. Weight in Grams: 466.
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 novel the narrator is composing about a refined Belle Epoque aesthete, whose anti-bourgeois transgressions seem like emotionally overcharged versions of the narrator's own experiences.
A third voice is that of a childhood friend who, after the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Condition
New
Number of Pages
720
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099766315
SKU
V9780099766315
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About Peter Nadas
Peter Nádas 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, 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 Péter Nádas: Own Death. He lives with his ... Read more
Reviews for A Book of Memories
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more