"Hugely ambitious, breathtakingly inventive."---
The New York Times "
Parallel Stories makes the case [for grandeur] in sheer ambition, unspooling in a vivid succession of epochs and genres---a Cold War thriller, a 1950s Budapest romance---evoking the quests, spiritual and erotic, that link us across time."---
Vogue "One of his country’s strangest, most ambitious literary achievements."---
New York magazine "We’re living in Péter Nádas’s time now. You’ll never read anything else even remotely like Parallel Stories....Enjoy." ---Slate