Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> World Literature - Hungary

First published in Hungary in 1986 after a five-year battle with censors, Peter Nadas'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...

The hallucinatory, unforgettable account of a moment - or an eternity - in an uncertain love affair

The man has actually come to tell his lover that he wants to leave her, but as soon as he walks in he realizes he won't be able to tell her. The woman rolls a joint. They smoke it. And as they drift into another state of mind, he approaches the border zones between being and nonbeing, between living and imagining, or is it between life and death?

From the acclaimed author of A Book of Memories we now have this unsettling and strangely beautiful exploration of the...

Special 70th Anniversary American Edition A new translation by writer and poet Peter Hargitai

"Writer and poet Peter Hargitai, working on an English translation of Utas es holdvilag Traveler and the Moonlight] in 1988, met with Szerb's widow, Klara, curious to know whether there had been real-life models for the novel's characters-particularly for Tamas and Eva, who intrigued him above all the others. In answer, Klara Szerb pointed out a framed photograph on a bookshelf: 'a youngish man with a pale, aristocratic, melancholy face.'

'This is Tamas, ' Mrs. Szerb said. 'My husband's...