The End of a Family Story

Informationen zum Autor Peter Nádas was born in Budapest in 1942. Among his works translated into English are the novels A Book of Memories , The End of a Family Story , Love and his most recent, Parallel Stories ; a collection of stories and essays, Fire and Knowledge and two pieces of short fiction, A Lovely Tale of Photography and Péter Nádas: Own Death . He lives with his wife in Gombosszeg, Hungary. Klappentext For him, he invents a fantastic tapestry of stories, a family saga, a fabulous world of myths and legends.His mother dead and his father condemned by the authorities as a traitor, Simon is sent to an institution where the inmates are sentenced to silence. Zusammenfassung It is 1950s Hungary; a country at the height of Stalinist repression with a populace reduced to silence and deception. An old man flees with his memories of the past in which he believes he can still find redemption, taking with him his grandson, Simon. For him, he invents a fantastic tapestry of stories, a family saga, a fabulous world of myths and legends. His mother dead and his father condemned by the authorities as a traitor, Simon is sent to an institution where the inmates are sentenced to silence. Liberated by his grandfather's stories, Simon gives dark and passionate testimony to the alienation and treason that surrounds him. Finally he begins to understand how other kinds of family stories will end.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Nadas, Peter Nádas, Péter Nádas
• Assisted by: Imre Goldstein (Translation), Goldstein Imre (Translation)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.05.2000
• EAN: 9780099288251
• ISBN: 978-0-09-928825-1
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 16 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Family Life / General, Fiction in translation, Hungary, c 1950 to c 1959, Relating to childhood, FICTION / World Literature / Hungary