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It is 1950s Hungary; a country at the height of Stalinist repression with a populace reduced to silence and deception. An old man flees with his memories of the past in which he believes he can still find redemption, taking with him his grandson, Simon. For him, he invents a fantastic tapestry of stories, a family saga, a fabulous world of myths and legends.
His mother dead and his father condemned by the authorities as a traitor, Simon is sent to an institution where the inmates are sentenced to silence. Liberated by his grandfather's stories, Simon gives dark and passionate testimony to the alienation and treason that surrounds him. Finally he begins to understand how other kinds of family stories will end.
His mother dead and his father condemned by the authorities as a traitor, Simon is sent to an institution where the inmates are sentenced to silence. Liberated by his grandfather's stories, Simon gives dark and passionate testimony to the alienation and treason that surrounds him. Finally he begins to understand how other kinds of family stories will end.
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Paperback. Pub Date: 2000. Pages: 224 in Publisher: Vintage the Set in Hungary in the 1950s when Stalinist repression also was found in the CTX and MGE with has reduced the populace to silence and deception of this book tells the story of an old man who flees to his memories of the past. For his grandson. he invents a fantastic tapestry of stories. a family saga. and a world of myths and legends.
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"Like Nadas's highly praised A Book of Memories, this is a moving, always unusual novel...it lifts the reader into the sort of deeply imagined personal experience that can only be achieved by good fiction" (Observer)
"A hypnotically beautiful novel" (Daily Telegraph)
"Peter Nadas is unique in that he both fictionalises the storytelling impulse and explores its origins in the consciousness of a child... A magnificent novel... A genuine work of art" (The Times)
"A hypnotically beautiful novel" (Daily Telegraph)
"Peter Nadas is unique in that he both fictionalises the storytelling impulse and explores its origins in the consciousness of a child... A magnificent novel... A genuine work of art" (The Times)
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- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0099288257
- ISBN 13 9780099288251
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