A Book of Memories
  • Published:
    May-1997 (Hardcover)
    Jul-2008 (Paperback)
  • Formats:
    Print
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Time Period:
    Contemporary
  • Pages:
    720
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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. The second, composed by the writer, is the story of a late nineteenth century German aesthete whose experiences mirror his own. And the third voice is that of a friend from the writer's childhood, who brings his own unexpected bearing to the story. Compared by critics to Proust, Mann, and Joyce, this sensuous tour de force is "unquestionably a masterpiece" (The New Republic).

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    •  
    • Jul-2008
    • Picador
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0312427964
    • ISBN13: 9780312427962
    •  
    • Jun-1998
    • Vintage (UK)
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0099766310
    • ISBN13: 9780099766315
    • First Edition
    • May-1997
    • Farrar, Straus and Giroux
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0374115435
    • ISBN13: 9780374115432
    •  
    • Oct-1998
    • Penguin
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0140275673
    • ISBN13: 9780140275674
    • Large Print



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