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In 1989, the entire year the Wall arrived down, a school university student in Berlin on his morning run sees a corpse on a area bench and alerts the authorities. This scene starts a book of extraordinary opportunity and depth, a masterwork that traces the destiny of myriad Europeans - Hungarians, Jews, Germans, Gypsies - across the treacherous many years of the mid-twentieth century. Three abnormal men are at the heart of Parallel Testimonies: Hans von Wolkenstein, whose German mother is linked to secrets of fascist-Nazi cooperation during the 1940s; Ágost Lippay Lehr, whose important father has served Hungary's different political regimes for decades; and András Rott, who has his own dark record of incomprehensible activities abroad. The net of extended and interconnected dramas gets to from 1989 back again to the planting season of 1939, when European countries trembled on the advantage of war, and reaches the bestial times of 1944-45, when Budapest was besieged, the ultimate Solution devastated Hungary's Jews, and the war came to an end, and to the cataclysmic Hungarian Revolution of Oct 1956. We follow these men from Berlin and Moscow to Switzerland and Holland, from the Mediterranean to the North Sea, and undoubtedly, from village to city in Hungary. The communal and political circumstances of their lives may vary greatly, their sexual and religious longings may appear to all of them totally unique, yet Péter Nádas' magnificent tapestry unveils uncanny reverberating parallels that web page link them across time and space. This is Péter Nádas's masterpiece - 18 years in the writing, a discomfort in Hungary even before it was printed, and almost four years in the translating. Parallel Testimonies is the first international translation of the daring, requiring, and momentous book, and it confirms for an even larger audience what Hungary already recognizes: that it is the author's biggest work.
