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A Book of Memories is made up of three first-person narratives: The first, that of a young Hungarian writer and his fated love for a German poet; we also learn of the narrator's adolescence in Budapest, when he experiences the downfall of his once upper-class but now pro-Communist family. A second memoir, alternating with the first, is a novel the narrator is composing about a refined Belle Epoque aesthete, whose anti-bourgeois transgressions seem like emotionally overcharged versions of the narrator's own experiences. A third voice is that of a childhood friend who, after the narrator's return to his homeland, offers an apparently more objective account of their friendship. Together these brilliantly coloured lives are integrated into a powerful work of tragic intensity.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Prose: non-fiction

• Full title: Book Of Memories
• Author: Péter Nádas
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 720
• EAN: 9780099766315
• ISBN: 0099766310
• ID: 04492054
• Publisher: Vintage Publishing
• Weight: 524 g
• Dimensions: 201 × 142 × 44 mm
• Date of publishing: 04. June 1998

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