Parallel Stories

A" New York Times Book Review" Notable Book of the Year"Parallel Stories" is a novel of extraordinary scope and depth, a masterwork that traces the fate of myriad Europeans---Hungarians, Jews, Germans, Gypsies---across the treacherous years of the mid--twentieth century. Three unusual men are at the [...]
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A" New York Times Book Review" Notable Book of the Year"Parallel Stories" is a novel of extraordinary scope and depth, a masterwork that traces the fate of myriad Europeans---Hungarians, Jews, Germans, Gypsies---across the treacherous years of the mid--twentieth century. Three unusual men are at the heart of the novel: Hans von Wolkenstein, whose German""mother has ties to the fascist-Nazi collaboration of the 1940s; Agost Lippay Lehr, ""whose influential father has served Hungary's""different political regimes for decades; and Andras""Rott, who has his own dark record of mysterious""activities abroad. Nadas weaves the social and political circumstances of their lives into a magnificent tapestry, aligning the uncanny parallels that link them across time and space. Fifteen years in the writing, and four in the translating, "Parallel Stories" is Peter Nadas's masterpiece---a daring and momentous novel from one of the great writers of our time.