Nadas, Peter Translated by Imre Goldstein (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. About Fine cloth-backed boards gently handled in a Fine dust jacket. Name penned in blue marker at front pastedown else bright, snug & unmarked. First UK printing.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First American Edition. 705pp. Stated: "First edition, 1997". Brick boards with black cloth spine and brilliant gilt lettering; author's initials in large letters, black-stamped at upper right front cover, over brick red. Dustwrapper not price-clipped ($30.00) with Gold and khaki full front cover background, faint, photo- illustration of a writer's desk beneath a vertically-divided window, the text of the "Author's Note" (printed opposite the copyright page) superimposed, with the title superimposed upon that at top, upper middle and lower middle front cover, above author name lettering in smaller red letters a ross bottom front cover. Slightly ruffled across top spine, bumped at top right front cover corner (book itself completely NOT bumped--dw did its job); slightly slanted 2 1/2" horizontal thin reverse indent (seemingly caused from inside dw) on front cover above lower edge (NO accompanying tears, as might be expected); 2 3/4" thin, slanted horizontal scratch on rear cover near bottom left edge, with two tiny bits of white beneath the black exposed, else no missing black color (with corresponding micro-thin, virtually undetectable, impact upon board itself): describes much worse than it is: book essentially As New: tight binding, sharp corners, no rubbing wear, no previous owner names. Clean text.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Second Edition, First Edition Thus. First impression of the second UK edition, with full number string sequence including the number "1": 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1. The first UK edition was published by Cape in 2011, and the first US edition was also published in 2011 by Farrar, Straus and Giruox, New York. ***Very good in black cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. The gilt is still beautifully bright. Boards clean and unmarked. No creasing or tears to the cloth. Corners sharp. There is some uneven tanning to the fore-edge of the page block. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. Midnight-blue endpapers and an integral blue satin reading ribbon. No creases or tears. Pages bright and clean. Spine tight. ***In a very good colour illustrated dustwrapper, that has not been price-clipped, showing the original publisher's printed price of £35.00. The dustwrapper is complete with no chips or tears - just some light edge creasing. No fading. Front and rear panels and spine of dustwrapper bright. ***1133 pages including bibliography and index to rear. 240 mm x 164 mm. ***'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. ***This is Peter Nádas's masterpiece - eighteen years in the writing, a sensation in Hungary even before it was published. "Parallel Stories" is the first foreign translation of this daring, demanding and momentous novel, and it confirms for an even larger audience what Hungary already knows: that it is the author's greatest work.' [Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper] ***A near fine example of the second UK edition of this monumental work. Due to the size and nature of the binding of this monumental book, the bindings are very prone to wear to the spine, corners and page block. Copies in such nice condition are very hard to find now. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1133 pages. Published in 2011. The author's fourth novel to be translated into English. One of the greatest novels of our time. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Peter Nadas' "Parallel Stories" in a felicitous English translation. A massive, 1133-page novel that only he, with characteristic irony and modesty, would have diminutively called "stories". It took him eighteen years - off and on - to write, and four non-stop years to translate with Imre Goldstein (Nadas is fluent in English, making translation of his work a genuine collaboration). The title refers to three unforgettable characters: "We follow these men from Berlin and Moscow to Switzerland and Holland, from the Mediterranean to the North Sea, and of course, from village to city in Hungary. The social and political circumstances of their lives may vary greatly, their sexual and spiritual longings may seem to each of them entirely unique, yet Peter Nadas' magnificent tapestry unveils uncanny reverberating parallels that link them across time and space" (Publisher's blurb). The "21st-century's 'War And Peace' " (Magyar Nemzet). An absolute "must-have" title for Peter Nadas collectors. This title is a great book. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing (American) still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies were badly damaged in transit because of the book's unwieldy size and shoddy packing on the publisher's part. A scarce copy thus. Peter Nadas' "A Book of Memories" is widely regarded as one of the greatest novels of our time. One of the greatest writers of our itme. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER PETER NADAS TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0374229767. no.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First UK edition, first printing (first impression) witha full number line beginning with [1] t to the copyright page to indicate a true first print in a near fine jacket with a light fade to the spine, which has not been price clipped. Clean pages, unread and unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 392 pages. Published in 2007. Retrospective collection of short fiction and literary essays. Now considered a contemporary classic. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Peter Nadas' "Fire And Knowledge: Fiction And Essays" in a felicitous English translation. The much-anticipated (and long-delayed) collection by the Hungarian writer who has written some of the greatest novels of our time: "A Book of Memories" (1997), "The End of A Family Story" (1998), and "Love" (2000). "The work of an extraordinary novelist, an artist whom critics easily compared to Robert Musil, James Joyce, and Thomas Mann. We discover other aspects of Peter Nadas' major presence in European life and letters: As a trenchant commentator on the events that have transformed his country and all of Europe since 1989, as a stunning literary critic, as a subtle interpreter of language and politics in societies both free and unfree, as a moralist with a discerning eye for the crippling effects of deception and hypocrisy upon us all. Acquaints us more fully with Nadas' evolution as a writer of fiction, for it includes stories dating from the 1960's and 1970's, when he had to write in extremely stringent, even dangerous circumstances, as well as some from more recent years, since the publication of his major novels and the reintegration of Western and Eastern Europe" (Publisher's blurb). Susan Sontag introduced Peter Nadas to the English-speaking world, hailing "A Book of Memories" as "the greatest novel written in our time, and one of the great books of the century", acclaim that has since been echoed by other critics and readers. She would have been delighted and moved - she is gratefully remembered in the book - by the belated publication in English of "Fire And Knowledge". An absolute "must-have" title for Peter Nadas collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed, placed, and dated (shortly before publication) in black fountain pen on the title page by the author: "Peter Nadas New York 7.11.2007". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. Peter Nadas made a rare appearance in the United States to launch his book. Advance copies were made available for the book launch during which event his signature was obtained. This title is a great collection. As far as we know, this is the only such signed, placed, and pre-publication dated copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing (American) available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. Peter Nadas' "A Book of Memories" is widely regarded as one of the greatest novels of our time. One of the greatest writers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER PETER NADAS TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0374299641. Signed by Author.