Love

Description

The man has actually come to tell his lover that he wants to leave her, but as soon as he walks in he realises he won't be able to tell her. The woman rolls a joint. They smoke it. And as they drift into another state of mind, he approaches the border zones between being and nonbeing, between living and imagining. Or is it between life and death? From the acclaimed author of A Book of Memories - 'The greatest novel written in our time, and one of the great books of the century' (Susan Sontag) - we now have this unsettling and strangely beautiful exploration of the impossibility, but the redeeming necessity, of love. The mysterious music and physical intensity of the narration will be familiar to readers of Peter Nadas's other fiction, but Love is a radical new departure.

Peter Nadas was born in Budapest in 1942. Among his works translated into English are the novels A Book of Memories, The End of a Family Story, and Love; a collection of stories and essays, Fire and Knowledge and two pieces of short fiction, A Lovely Tale of Photography and Peter Nadas- Own Death. He lives with his wife in Gombosszeg, Hungary.

A hypnotically beautiful novel * Daily Telegraph * This is not a tale of a love gone mad, but of the madness of love itself * Express on Sunday * Sliding imperceptibly from prose into poetry, Nadas creates an intense atmosphere that mingles fear with love * Scotland on Sunday * A romantic, anguished, searching work * Sunday Times *