Helping Verbs of the Heart

by Péter Esterházy

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802111238
• ISBN13: 9780802111234
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Grove/Atlantic
• Length: 111 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Above all Naturalism

This book is a poignantly profound confession of a sincere mother-child rapport, when it gets measured in the tragedy of a terminal disease. Unforgettable.

Interesting and difficult but good

This book explores the narrator's mother's death - the second half being narrated by the dead mother. Interspered between the narrative segments are quotations from a wide variety of literary sources. In the narrative segments, especially those of the mother, dreams and "reality" are intertwined. The book deserves multiple readings to fully appreciate its content but is certainly enjoyable as a single read.Note: since there is no description of the book this is translated from Hungarian and is part of a larger work.