Ungareren PéterNádas etablerte seg for alvor på den litterære verdensscenen på 80-talet med Erindringens bok, som Susan Sontag betegnet som "Den største romanen som er skrevet i vår tid". Det mektige verket,som Agora/Press nylig har nyutgitt, plasserte ham i selskap med Thomas Mann og Marcel [...]

A "New York Times Book Review" Editors' Choice
The U.S. publication of "A Book of Memories "in 1997 introduced to our shores the work of an extraordinary novelist, Peter Nadas. Now, in "Fire and Knowledge," a superb collection of short stories, essays, and literary criticism, we discover other a[...]

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[...]

In 1989, the year the Wall came down, a university student in Berlin on his morning run finds a corpse on a park bench and alerts the authorities. This scene opens a novel of extraordinary scope and depth, a masterwork that traces the fate of myriad Europeans ? Hungarians, Jews, Germans, Gypsies ? a[...]