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Love

Author: Peter Nadas Translated from the Hungarian by Imre Goldstein

Love

Love

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The hallucinatory, unforgettable account of a moment - or an eternity - in an uncertain love affair

The man has actually come to tell his lover that he wants to leave her, but as soon...

Page Count
128
On Sale
02/01/2004

Book Details

The hallucinatory, unforgettable account of a moment - or an eternity - in an uncertain love affair

The man has actually come to tell his lover that he wants to leave her, but as soon as he walks in he realizes he won't be able to tell her. The woman rolls a joint. They smoke it. And as they drift into another state of mind, he approaches the border zones between being and nonbeing, between living and imagining, or is it between life and death?

From the acclaimed author of A Book of Memories we now have this unsettling and strangely beautiful exploration of the impossibility of love. The mysterious musicality and physical intensity of the narration will be familiar to readers of Nadas's other fiction, but Love is a radical new departure.

Imprint Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

ISBN

9780374529550

In The News

“A magnificent work.” —Stuttgarter Zeitung

“Péter Nádas, one of Hungary's pre-eminent literary figures, has . . . transposed the novel of consciousness to the Socialist universe, and closed the gap between prewar modernism . . . and Eastern Europe.” —Eva Hoffman, The New York Times Book Review

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Love

Love

$16.00

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