A Book of Memories

A Book of Memories PDF Author: Péter Nádas
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312427964
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 722

Book Description
A novel exploring human relations. Its hero is a Hungarian writer who lives through the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and has a homosexual affair with a German poet in East Berlin.

Looking Back

Looking Back PDF Author: Lois Lowry
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395895436
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 200

Book Description
Using family photographs and quotes from her books, the author provides glimpses into her life.

The Book of Memories

The Book of Memories PDF Author: Ana María Shua
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826319487
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 212

Book Description
The humorous and moving story of three generations of a Jewish family in Argentina.

Looking Back

Looking Back PDF Author: Lois Lowry
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Two-time Newbery Medalist Lois Lowry offers an intimate look at pivotal moments that affected her life, inspired her writing, and often evolved into her rich novels.

My Little House Book of Memories

My Little House Book of Memories PDF Author: Laura Ingalls Wilder
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 9780694006298
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 96

Book Description
Wilder based the Little House books on memories of her childhood, growing up on the American frontier. The Little House Book of Memories is just right for young children to record their thoughts, remembrances, and hopes. Includes plenty of space to record special moments and everyday happenings. Features original illustrations and quotes from the Little House books.

Fire and Knowledge

Fire and Knowledge PDF Author: Péter Nádas
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780374299644
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 408

Book Description
"Fire and Knowledge also acquaints us more fully with Nadas's evolution as a writer of fiction, for it includes stories dating from the 1960s and 1970s when he had to write in extremely stringent, sometimes dangerous circumstances and was often kept from publishing - as well as stories from more recent years, since the publication of his major novels and the reintegration of Western and Eastern Europe."--BOOK JACKET.

Christmas Memories Book

Christmas Memories Book PDF Author: Applewood Books
Publisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 9780939510849
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This 20 year diary has fine calligraphy and drawings by Lynn Anderson. Each year features a pen and ink drawing of a different 19th century tradition, accompanied by an explanation of the holiday custom featured. Record visitors, special Christmas cards, family photographs and other memories.

A Mother's Memories

A Mother's Memories PDF Author: Georgene Muller Lockwood
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780785320128
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80

Book Description

Parallel Stories

Parallel Stories PDF Author: Péter Nádas
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446484157
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1156

Book Description
In 1989, the memorable year when the Wall came down, a university student in Berlin on his early morning run finds a corpse lying on a park bench and alerts the authorities. This classic police-procedural scene opens an extraordinary novel, a masterwork that traces the fate of myriad Europeans - Hungarians, Jews, Germans, Gypsies - across the treacherous years of the mid-twentieth century. The social and political circumstances of their lives may vary richly, their sexual and spiritual longings may seem to each of them entirely unique, yet Peter Nádas's magnificent tapestry unveils uncanny, reverberating parallels that link them across time and space. Three unusual men are at the heart of Parallel Stories: Hans von Wolkenstein, whose German mother is linked to dark secrets of fascist-Nazi collaboration during the 1940s, Ágost Lippay-Lehr, whose influential father has served Hungary's different political régimes for decades, and Andras Rott, who has his own dark record of dark activities abroad. They are friends in Budapest when we eventually meet them in the spring of 1961, a pivotal time in the postwar epoch and in their clandestine careers. But the richly detailed, dramatic memories and actions of these men, like those of their friends, lovers and family members, range from Berlin and Moscow to Switzerland and Holland, from the Mediterranean to the North Sea, and of course, across Hungary. The ever-daring, ever-original episodes of Parallel Lives explore the most intimate, most difficult human experiences in a prose glowing with uncommon clarity and also with mysterious uncertainty - as is characteristic of Nadas's subtle, spirited art. The web of extended dramas in Parallel Stories reaches not just forward to the transformative year of 1989 but back to the spring of 1939, with Europe trembling on the edge of war; to the bestial times of 1944-45, when Budapest was besieged, the final solution devastated Hungary's Jews, and the war came to an end; and to the cataclysmic Hungarian Revolution of October 1956. But there is much more to Parallel Stories than that: it is a daring, demanding, and very moving exploration of humanity at its most constrained and its most free.
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