A Book of Memories

THE AUTHOR

PÉTER NÄDAS

Péter Nádas was born in Budapest in 1942. He lived for a good part of his adolescence in an orphanage, his mother having died of cancer, and his father, a state prosecutor in the Communist government, having committed suicide shortly after the Hungarian uprising of 1956. A Book of Memories took him many years to write, and another five years simply getting it past the censors. When it was finally published in Budapest in 1986 it caused a sensation.