Peter Nadas

• Oct-2011
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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 ...

• Jul-2008
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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, Péter Nádas. Now, in Fire and Knowledge, a superb collection of short stories,...

• Jul-2007
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A superb collection of short stories, essays, and literary criticism from the great Hungarian writer

The U.S. publication of A Book of Memories in 1997 introduced to our shores the work of an extraordinary novelist, an artist whom crit...

• Feb-2004
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The hallucinatory, unforgettable account of a moment - or an eternity - in an uncertain love affair

The man has actually come to tell his lover that he wants to leave her, but as soon as he walks in he realizes he won't be able to tell her. ...

• Nov-1998
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The Hungarian author's first novella, originally published in 1977, features a boy living in Hungary under communist repression who finds refuge in extravagant storytelling. By the author of A Book of Memories. Reprint....

• May-1997
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First published in Hungary in 1986 after a five-year battle with censors, Péter Nádas's A Book of Memories is a modern classic, a multi-layered narrative that tells three parallel stories of love and betrayal. The first takes place in East Berli...