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The magnum opus of one of Europe's greatest living writers. "When telling one's life story to someone else one manufactures not chronicles but legends for oneself, " Péter Nádas writes in his fiction masterpiece, Parallel Stories. Now, in his illuminating memoir, Shimmering Details, the renowned author investigates what it means to reconstruct a life without recourse to the techniques and embellishments of traditional storytelling. Taking his ...

The magnum opus of one of Europe's greatest living writers. In Shimmering Details, Volume II, Péter Nádas delves deeper into his and his parents' lives during the tumultuous years spanning the rise of Hungarian communism in 1948 to the brutal suppression of the 1956 uprising. Zeroing in on this critical period--which overlapped with the formative years of his childhood--Nádas concludes his monumental history of a family whose own experiences a...

The magnum opus of one one of Europe's greatest living writers."Instead of a chronicle, a person tends to manufacture legends when he relates the story of his life for others, " Péter Nádas writes in his fiction masterpiece, Parallel Stories. Now, in his own memoir, the renowned author investigates what it might mean to reconstruct a life without recourse to the techniques and embellishments of traditional storytelling.Taking his firmly imbedd...

The magnum opus of one of Europe's greatest living writers."Instead of a chronicle, a person tends to manufacture legends when he relates the story of his life for others, " Péter Nádas writes in his fiction masterpiece, Parallel Stories. Now, in his own memoir, the renowned author investigates what it might mean to reconstruct a life without recourse to the techniques and embellishments of traditional storytelling.Taking his firmly imbedded m...