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008			140408s2011 nyu b 000 1 eng
010			_a2010039688
020			_a9781250013903
050	0	0	_aPH3291.N297 _bP37513 2011
082	0	0	_aFIC NAD
100	1		_aNadas, Peter _d, 1942-
240	1	0	_aPárhuzamos történetek _l. English
245	1	0	_aParallel stories _c/ Péter Nádas ; translated from the Hungarian by Imre Goldstein.
250			_a1st American ed.
260			_aNew York _b: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux _c, 2011.
300			_a1133 p. _c; 25 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
520			_aMake no mistake, this is a magnum opus, with the operative word being magnum. Nadas (A Book of Memories) is said to have spent 15 years in the writing, and his sweep is both grand and minute. He describes a simple sex act in excruciating detail for endless pages, then plunges without transition into different historical eras. His purview is Europe from mid-20th century forward, with much attention to the carnage and destruction visited upon his native Hungary during World War II and the revolution of 1956 against communist rule and Soviet control. But while detailing this, he's likely to cut to a conversation among friends in a Budapest apartment, and his prose here can be as repetitive and banal as it is revealing. Apparently a principal aim is to show how the stories of his various characters are related even if they don't intersect. Curiously, there is not a single question mark in this probing work.
650			_aMiddle class families _v--Fiction
651		0	_aBudapest (Hungary) _v--Fiction
700	1		_aGoldstein, Imre _d, 1938-
942			_cMO
999			_c272238 _d272238