{"product_id":"a-book-of-memories","title":"A Book Of Memories","description":"\u003ci\u003eA Book of Memories\u003c\/i\u003e is made up of three first-person narratives-\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The first, that of a young Hungarian writer and his fated love for a German poet; we also learn of the narrator's adolescence in Budapest, when he experiences the downfall of his once upper-class but now pro-Communist family.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A second memoir, alternating with the first, is a novel the narrator is composing about a refined \u003ci\u003eBelle Epoque\u003c\/i\u003e aesthete, whose anti-bourgeois transgressions seem like emotionally overcharged versions of the narrator's own experiences.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A third voice is that of a childhood friend who, after the narrator's return to his homeland, offers an apparently more objective account of their friendship.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Together these brilliantly coloured lives are integrated into a powerful work of tragic intensity.\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGenre:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hungary, History\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 576\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780099766315\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Nádas, Péter","offers":[{"title":"Standard Secondhand — £6.48","offer_id":48164356620465,"sku":"SB-0099766310-C3","price":6.48,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/0099766310.jpg?v=1794359284","url":"https:\/\/sellbooks.co.uk\/products\/a-book-of-memories","provider":"Sell Books .co.uk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}