A Book of Memories

Péter Nádas · b. 1942 · Hungary

Originally Emlékiratok Könyve (Hungarian)

Why it matters

Three narrators interweave across late-Communist Budapest, 1900s Berlin, and ancient Rome in an architecture of memory, desire, and surveillance. Over a decade in the writing, and Hungary's great postwar prose monument.

At a glance

Three interleaved narrators, sentence-long paragraphs, and shifting timeframes across a huge novel.