Product Description: A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the YearParallel Stories is a novel of extraordinary scope and depth, a masterwork that traces the fate of myriad Europeans―Hungarians, Jews, Germans, Gypsies―across the treacherous years of the mid–twentieth century...read more

Product Description: A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 In 1989, the year the Wall came down, a university student in Berlin on his morning run finds a corpse on a park bench and alerts the authorities. This scene opens a novel of extraordinary scope and depth, a masterwork that traces the fate of myriad Europeans―Hungarians, Jews, Germans, Gypsies―across the treacherous years of the mid-twentieth century...read more

Product Description: Tranquility is a living seismograph of the internal quakes and ruptures of a mother and son trapped within an Oedipal nightmare amidst the suffocating totalitarian embrace of Communist Hungary. Andor Weér, a thirty-six-year-old writer, lives in a cramped apartment with his shut-in mother, Rebeka, who was once among the most celebrated stage actresses in Budapest...read more

Presents a new compilation of short fiction, essays, and literary criticism from the acclaimed Hungarian writer and author of A Book of Memories, including his analytical interpretations of language and politics, studies on the crippling effects of hypocrisy and deception, and stories that chronicle his evolution as a writer of fiction.

The Hungarian author's first novella, originally published in 1977, features a boy living in Hungary under communist repression who finds refuge in extravagant storytelling. By the author of A Book of Memories. Reprint.

A psychological novel about the memory of things in Europe's recent past interweaves the first-person narratives of a young Hungarian writer, his literary creation--an egomaniacal Marxist and aesthete--and his childhood friend. (view table of contents)

When the Jews of his hometown are sent to concentration camps, young David Kobra escapes to Budapest, hiding out from the Nazis and later, growing up under Soviet oppression