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  • Published: 9 February 2027
  • ISBN: 9780241805671
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 448
  • RRP: $24.99
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The Notebook Trilogy




The internationally acclaimed The Notebook Trilogy has long been hailed a masterpiece and across the world, and is now available in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time

Sent to a remote village to live with their grandmother, twins Claus and Lucas devise physical and mental exercises to render themselves invulnerable to the ongoing horrors of war and living under a totalitarian regime. When their bond is tested, their collective ‘we’ shatters and the boys become isolated in different countries. Lucas is challenged to prove his identity and that of his missing brother, a defector to ‘the other side’.

Kristóf’s haunting and unforgettable masterpiece has been an international phenomenon ever since its first publication in French 40 years ago. Distilling the brutally fracturing effects of war and displacement onto identity and memory, and our need for stories in our search for unity and meaning, The Notebook Trilogy is stark fable of timeless relevance.

  • Published: 9 February 2027
  • ISBN: 9780241805671
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 448
  • RRP: $24.99
Categories:

About the author

Ágota Kristóf

Ágota Kristóf, born in Csikvánd, Hungary, in 1935, became an exile in French-speaking Switzerland in 1956. Working in a factory, she slowly learned French, the language of her adopted country. Her first novel The Notebook (1986), gained international recognition and was translated into more than thirty languages. It was followed by the sequels in the trilogy, The Proof (1988), and The Third Lie (1991). In 2004 Kristof published a memoir, The Illiterate, about her childhood, her escape from Hungary in 1956, her learning a new language as a refugee, and writing in this new ‘alien’ language, French. She also wrote plays and further novels. She died in 2011.

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