- Published: 10 November 2011
- ISBN: 9781446484159
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 1152
Parallel Stories
- Published: 10 November 2011
- ISBN: 9781446484159
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 1152
A fiendishly complex plot that leaps in time throughout the 20th century, and in a place through Mitteleuropa
Toby Clements, Sunday Telegraph
A virtuoso combination of nineteenth-century high realism with the experimentalism of the nouveau roman...the real narrative is that of bodies' actions on one another, their attraction and desires, their mutual memories
Gábor Csordás
It's with remarkable dexterity that Nadas splices together the political, sexual and emotional histories of two families, the Hungarian Lippay Lehrs and the German Döhrings
Thomas Marks, Telegraph
Nadas is closer to Proust and Musil, and even to Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, in his ultra-Freudian, or Lacanian approach... There are instances of real enchantment in Nadas' book
George Gomori, Literary Review
No writer in Europe today has dealt more eloquently with the obligations and moral conundrums of memory, private and collective, than the Hungarian novelist and essayist Peter Nadas
New York Times