The End of a Family Story
ISBN: 9780099288251
Size: 129*198
Weight: 181 g
Page no.: 256
Publish year: 2000
The End of a Family Story
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.
AUTHOR:
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, and Love; a collection of stories and essays, Fire and Knowledge and two pieces of short fiction, A Lovely Tale of Photography and Peter Nádas: Own Death. He lives with his wife in Gombosszeg, Hungary.
Translator: Goldstein Imre
Category: Magyar irodalom idegen nyelven, Szépirodalom
