Nadas, Peter
Book Of Memories
- ISBN 13:
- 9780099766315
- author:
- Nadas, Peter
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Vintage
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 1998
- Pages:
- 720
- Dimensions:
- 19.2 x 13 x 4.2 cm
- Genre:
- Literature
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
A Book of Memories by Péter Nádas is a powerful and poignant work that weaves together three distinct narratives. The first part tells the story of a young Hungarian writer's doomed love affair with a German poet, set against the backdrop of his family's decline from upper-class status to pro-Communist sympathies. Alternating with this narrative is a novel-in-progress about a refined Belle Epoque aesthete, whose anti-bourgeois transgressions mirror the narrator's own experiences. The third voice in the book comes from a childhood friend, who offers an objective account of their friendship after the narrator returns to his homeland. These three lives are intertwined to create a work of tragic intensity that explores themes of love, class, and identity.
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