{"product_id":"9781250013903","title":"Parallel Stories : A Novel","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eParallel Stories\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Péter Nádas\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA\u003ci\u003e New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eParallel Stories\u003c\/i\u003e 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 heart of the novel: Hans von Wolkenstein, whose German mother has ties to the fascist-Nazi collaboration of the 1940s; Ágost Lippay Lehr, whose influential father has served Hungary's different political regimes for decades; and András Rott, who has his own dark record of mysterious activities abroad. Nádas weaves the social and political circumstances of their lives into a magnificent tapestry, aligning the uncanny parallels that link them across time and space.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFifteen years in the writing, and four in the translating, \u003ci\u003eParallel Stories\u003c\/i\u003e is Péter Nádas's masterpiece—a daring and momentous novel from one of the great writers of our time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Hugely ambitious, breathtakingly inventive.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eParallel Stories\u003c\/i\u003e makes the case [for grandeur] in sheer ambition, unspooling in a vivid succession of epochs and genres---a Cold War thriller, a 1950s Budapest romance---evoking the quests, spiritual and erotic, that link us across time.” —\u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“One of his country's strangest, most ambitious literary achievements.” —\u003ci\u003eNew York magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“We're living in Péter Nádas's time now. You'll never read anything else even remotely like \u003ci\u003eParallel Stories\u003c\/i\u003e....Enjoy.” —\u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781250013903\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40633864519886,"sku":"9781250013903","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_5ead324e-034b-4331-9306-e6f837229b02.jpg?v=1638926992","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781250013903","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}