ISBN10: 0374229767, ISBN13: 9780374229764, [publisher: New York City, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2011] Hardcover First Edition 1st Printing. 1133 pages. Published in 2011. The author's fourth novel to be translated into English. One of the greatest novels of our time. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Peter Nadas' "Parallel Stories" in a felicitous English translation. A massive, 1133-page novel that only he, with characteristic irony and modesty, would have diminutively called "stories". It took him eighteen years - off and on - to write, and four non-stop years to translate with Imre Goldstein (Nadas is fluent in English, making translation of his work a genuine collaboration). The title refers to three unforgettable characters: "We follow these men from Berlin and Moscow to Switzerland and Holland, from the Mediterranean to the North Sea, and of course, from village to city in Hungary. The social and political circumstances of their lives may vary greatly, their sexual and spiritual longings may seem to each of them entirely unique, yet Peter Nadas' magnificent tapestry unveils uncanny reverberating parallels that link them across time and space" (Publisher's blurb). The ...
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