Parallel stories /
The agendas of three European men with dubious political histories converge in the aftermath of an 1989 death linked to the fates of myriad Hungarians, Jews, Germans and Gypsies across the treacherous years of the mid-twentieth century.
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Language: | English |
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New York :
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux,
2011.
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Edition: | 1st American ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Volume I: The mute realm. Patricide
- The creator wanted it this way
- A genteel building
- Isolde's lovelorn swan song
- Everyone in their own darkness
- The real Leistkow
- Döhring's continuous dream
- Le nu féminin en mouvement
- Himself in the magic mirror
- Through the entrance to his secret life
- The quiet reasons of the mind
- Volume II: In the very depth of the night. Margit Island
- The other shore
- Informed of her own existence
- Those two
- Ilona's rice chicken
- A brand new civilization
- Otherwise it couldn't have raged
- American dream
- Tearing up everything
- They could not forget it
- By the summer of '57
- Every Hungarian was lost
- Saturated sleepers
- The last judgment
- Volume III: The breath of freedom. Anus mundi
- Like fine clockwork
- No more time
- The lovely angel of revenge
- A startling gratification
- Hans von Wolkenstein
- I've been in this building before
- The noose tightens
- This sunny summer afternoon
- Only inches from each other
- The spice of happiness
- In full swing
- A fecund apricot tree
- The lover of her beauty.