Parallel Stories

By Péter Nádas

Book Overview

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year

Parallel Stories is a novel of extraordinary scope and depth, a masterwork that traces the fate of myriad Europeans--Hungarians, Jews, Germans, Gypsies--across the treacherous years of the mid-twentieth century. Three unusual men are at the heart of the novel: Hans von Wolkenstein, whose German mother has ties to the fascist-Nazi collaboration of the 1940s; gost Lippay Lehr, whose influential father has served Hungary's different political regimes for decades; and Andr s Rott, who has his own dark record of mysterious activities abroad. N das weaves the social and political circumstances of their lives into a magnificent tapestry, aligning the uncanny parallels that link them across time and space.

Fifteen years in the writing, and four in the translating, Parallel Stories is P ter N das's masterpiece--a daring and momentous novel from one of the great writers of our time.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250013909
• ISBN13: 9781250013903
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Picador USA
• Length: 1152 Pages
• Weight: 3.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"