Parallel Stories

by Péter Nádas

Book Overview

A New York Times Notable Book for 2011

In 1989, the year the Wall came down, a university student in Berlin on his morning run finds a corpse on a park bench and alerts the authorities. This scene opens a novel of extraordinary scope and depth, a masterwork that traces the fate of myriad Europeans--Hungarians, Jews, Germans, Gypsies--across the treacherous years of the mid-twentieth century.

Three unusual men are...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374229767
• ISBN13: 9780374229764
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 1152 Pages
• Weight: 3.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.1" x 6.5" x 9.4"