A Book of Memories

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.

ISBN:	9780099766315
Publisher:	Random House
Imprint:	Vintage
Published date:	04 Jun 1998
DEWEY:	894.511334
DEWEY edition:	21
Language:	English
Sales rank:	9525
Number of pages:	705
Weight:	524g
Height:	201mm
Width:	142mm
Spine width:	44mm

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