A Book of Memories A Novel [Paperback]

First published in Hungary in 1986 after a five-year battle with censors, P?ter N?das'sA Book of Memoriesis a modern classic, a multi-layered narrative that tells three parallel stories of love and betrayal. The first takes place in East Berlin in the 1970s and features an unnamed Hungarian writer ensnared in a love triangle with a young German and a famous aging actress. The second, composed by the writer, is the story of a late nineteenth century German aesthete whose experiences mirror his own. And the third voice is that of a friend from the writer's childhood, who brings his own unexpected bearing to the story. Compared by critics to Proust, Mann, and Joyce, this sensuous tour de force is unquestionably a masterpiece (The New Republic).

P?ter N?dasis the author of the novelsA Book of Memories,The End of a Family Story, andLove.He lives in Gombosszeg, in western Hungary.

The greatest novel written in our time, and one of the great books of the century. Susan Sontag

A vast, astonishing, reverberant novel . . . It is a comprehensive and all-comprehending book about politics, sex, art, history, psychology, mortality, and memory. Richard Dyer, The Boston Globe

A huge philosophically complex, sensuously textured novel. Eva Hoffman, The New York Times Book Review

A magnum opus . . . [N?das] articulates erotic experience with surpassing precision and grace. . . . There is great beauty to the writing. Susan Miron, The Wall Street Journal

There is a wealth of accomplishment inA Book of Memories. It is an epic and immensely fertile exploration of contemporary history and sensibility. Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times

A superb achievement, by a world-class writer. Susan Ruben Suleiman, The Village Voice

A Book of Memorieswill endure as a great moral expression of the European crucible of public and private slsè