Parallel Stories: Library Edition

Nadas, Peter

ISBN 10: 1455863688 ISBN 13: 9781455863686

Publisher: Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, 2012

Synopsis

The agendas of three European men with dubious political histories converge in the aftermath of an 1989 death linked to the fates of myriad Hungarians, Jews, Germans, and Gypsies across the treacherous years of the mid-twentieth century.

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Review

"Hugely ambitious, breathtakingly inventive."---"The New York Times "

""Parallel Stories" makes the case [for grandeur] in sheer ambition, unspooling in a vivid succession of epochs and genres---a Cold War thriller, a 1950s Budapest romance---evoking the quests, spiritual and erotic, that link us across time."---"Vogue"

"One of his country's strangest, most ambitious literary achievements."---"New York magazine"

"We're living in Peter Nadas's time now. You'll never read anything else even remotely like "Parallel Stories."...Enjoy." "---Slate"

"Hugely ambitious, breathtakingly inventive." --"The New York Times"

""Parallel Stories" makes the case [for grandeur] in sheer ambition, unspooling in a vivid succession of epochs and genres---a Cold War thriller, a 1950s Budapest romance---evoking the quests, spiritual and erotic, that link us across time." --"Vogue"

"One of his country's strangest, most ambitious literary achievements." --"New York magazine"

"We're living in Peter Nadas's time now. You'll never read anything else even remotely like "Parallel Stories."...Enjoy." --"Slate""

Hugely ambitious, breathtakingly inventive. "The New York Times"

"Parallel Stories" makes the case [for grandeur] in sheer ambition, unspooling in a vivid succession of epochs and genres---a Cold War thriller, a 1950s Budapest romance---evoking the quests, spiritual and erotic, that link us across time. "Vogue"

One of his country's strangest, most ambitious literary achievements. "New York magazine"

We're living in Peter Nadas's time now. You'll never read anything else even remotely like "Parallel Stories."...Enjoy. "Slate""

"Hugely ambitious, breathtakingly inventive." --The New York Times

"Parallel Stories makes the case [for grandeur] in sheer ambition, unspooling in a vivid succession of epochs and genres---a Cold War thriller, a 1950s Budapest romance---evoking the quests, spiritual and erotic, that link us across time." --Vogue

"One of his country's strangest, most ambitious literary achievements." --New York magazine

"We're living in Peter Nadas's time now. You'll never read anything else even remotely like Parallel Stories....Enjoy." --Slate

About the Author

Peter Nadas was born in Budapest in 1942. Among his works translated into English are the novels A Book of Memories (FSG, 1997), The End of a Family Story (FSG, 1998), and Love (FSG, 2000); a collection of stories and essays, Fire and Knowledge (FSG, 2007); and two pieces of short fiction, A Lovely Tale of Photography and Peter Nadas: Own Death. He lives with his wife in Gombosszeg, Hungary.

Edition details

• Publisher: Brilliance Audio Lib Edn
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1455863688
• ISBN 13: 9781455863686
• Binding: Audio CD