<DIV><DIV><DIV><B>A<I> New York Times Book Review</I> Notable Book of the Year</B> </P><I>Parallel Stories</I> is 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 the novel: Hans von Wolkenstein, whose German<I> </I>mother has ties to the fascist-Nazi collaboration of the 1940s; Ágost Lippay Lehr,<I> </I>whose influential father has served Hungary’s<I> </I>different political regimes for decades; and András<I> </I>Rott, who has his own dark record of mysterious<I> </I>activities abroad. Nádas weaves the social and political circumstances of their lives into a magnificent tapestry, aligning the uncanny parallels that link them across time and space. </P>Fifteen years in the writing, and four in the translating, <I>Parallel Stories</I> is Péter Nádas’s masterpiece---a daring and momentous novel from one of the great writers of our time. </DIV></DIV></DIV>