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Title:

A BOOK OF MEMORIES

By:

Peter Nadas

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0099766310

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9780099766315

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Publisher:

VINTAGE PUBLISHING

Pub. date:

4 June, 1998

Pages:

720

Description:

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.

Synopsis:

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 narrator's return to his homeland, offers an apparently more objective account of their friendship. Together these brilliantly coloured lives are integrated into a powerful work of tragic intensity.

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Vintage

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