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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 EuropeansâHungarians, Jews, Germans, Gypsiesâacross the treacherous years of the mid-twentieth century.Three unusual men are at the heart of Parallel Stories: Hans von Wolkenstein, whose German mother is linked to secrets of fascist-Nazi collaboration during the 1940s; Ãgost Lippay Lehr, whose influential father has served Hungaryâs different political regimes for decades; and András Rott, who has his own dark record of mysterious activities abroad. The web of extended and interconnected dramas reaches from 1989 back to the spring of 1939, when Europe trembled on the edge of war, and extends to the bestial times of 1944â45, when Budapest was besieged, the Final Solution devastated Hungaryâs Jews, and the war came to an end, and on to the cataclysmic Hungarian Revolution of October 1956. We follow these men from Berlin and Moscow to Switzerland and Holland, from the Mediterranean to the North Sea, and of course, from village to city in Hungary. The social and political circumstances of their lives may vary greatly, their sexual and spiritual longings may seem to each of them entirely unique, yet Péter Nádasâs magnificent tapestry unveils uncanny reverberating parallels that link them across time and space.This is Péter Nádasâs masterpieceâeighteen years in the writing, a sensation in Hungary even before it was published, and almost four years in the translating. Parallel Stories is the first foreign translation of this daring, demanding, and momentous novel, and it confirms for an even larger audience what Hungary already knows: that it is the authorâs greatest work.
CD/Spoken Word:
9781455863686 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, March 15, 2012), cover price $99.97
9781455863693 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, March 15, 2012), cover price $49.97 | About this edition: 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.
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 EuropeansâHungarians, Jews, Germans, Gypsiesâacross the treacherous years of the mid-twentieth century...read more
Hardcover:
9780374229764 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, October 25, 2011, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: 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.
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.
Hardcover:
9780374299644 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, July 24, 2007, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: 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.
Paperback:
9780312427511 | Reprint edition (Picador USA, July 22, 2008), cover price $16.00
Product Description: First published in Hungary in 1986 after a five-year battle with censors, Péter Nádas's A Book of Memories is a modern classic, a multi-layered narrative that tells three parallel stories of love and betrayal. The first takes place in East Berlin in the 1970s and features an unnamed Hungarian writer ensnared in a love triangle with a young German and a famous aging actress...read more
Paperback:
9780312427962 | Reprint edition (Picador USA, July 22, 2008), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: First published in Hungary in 1986 after a five-year battle with censors, Péter Nádas's A Book of Memories is a modern classic, a multi-layered narrative that tells three parallel stories of love and betrayal.
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