Mälestuste raamat

Three parallel memories from three different eras: escape in Germany at the turn of the last century, childhood in Stalinist Hungary and self-discovery in East Berlin in the seventies. A novel written over twelve years, in which the author immerses himself so deeply into the depths of his characters that the extremely personal and irregular suddenly becomes universal, body memory opens up historical memory, and the characters' sensual self-searches become a psychogram of the era. The main work of the Hungarian prose renewal of the 1980s, which Susan Sontag has called the best novel of the final decades of the 20th century.

Péter Nádas (b. 1942) is a great figure in Hungarian literature and an outstanding photographer. His debut novel "The End of a Family Novel" and an essayistic conversation written with Richard Swartz "Two Conversations" have previously been published in Estonian.