This novel it is 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 writeris 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). First published in Hungary in 1986, Péter Nádas’s “A Book of Memories” is a modern classic. https://www.amazon.com/Book-Memories-Novel-P%C3%A9ter-N%C3%A1das/dp/0312427964
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