Parallel stories: a novel

✍ Scribed by Péter Nádas

• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 875 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

**A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 **

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In 1989, the year the Wall came down, a university student in Berlin on his morning run finds a corpse on a park bench and alerts the authorities. This scene opens a novel of extraordinary scope and depth, a masterwork that traces the fate of myriad Europeans --Hungarians, Jews, Germans, Gypsies--across the treacherous years of the mid-twentieth century.

Three unusual men are at the heart of Parallel Stories : Hans von Wolkenstein, whose German __ mother is linked to secrets of fascist-Nazi collaboration during the 1940s; Ágost Lippay Lehr,__ whose influential father has served Hungary's __ different political regimes for decades; and András __ Rott, who has his own dark record of mysterious __ activities abroad. The web of extended and __ interconnected dramas reaches from 1989 back to __ the spring of 1939, when...