Peter Nadas, Author, Amri Goldshtain, Author, Imri Goldshtain, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $30 (576p) ISBN 978-0-374-11543-2
First published in Budapest in 1986 after a five-year struggle with censors, this remarkable novel uses three narrators to tell the story of a young Hungarian writer tormented by his past: a childhood during the Stalinist 1950s; rebellion against...
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Péter Nádas, trans. from the Hungarian by Imre Goldstein. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $40 (1,152p) ISBN 978-0-374-22976-4
Nádas’s (A Book of Memories) immense chronicle of Europe before, during, and after WWII largely succeeds in summing up a wide swath of Europe’s pre- and post-Nazi experience. Reaching as far into the 20th century as the fall of the Berlin Wall, the...
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Peter Nadas, Author, Imre Goldstein, Translator , trans. from the Hungarian by Imre Goldstein. Farrar, Straus & Giroux $26 (391p) ISBN 978-0-374-29964-4
Hungarian author Nádas is the kind of writer who manages to be wry without being funny—the graveyards of Europe's recent past are too fresh for that. His trenchant works fit comfortably into a continental literary tradition of high
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Peter Nadas, Author, Imre Goldstein, Translator Farrar Straus Giroux $23 (224p) ISBN 978-0-374-14832-4
As in his previous novel, The Book of Memories, Hungarian author Nadas intricately and beautifully relates concentric stories within stories. In this case, a boy struggles to comprehend the threatening forces wrought by the adults who are supposed...
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