{"product_id":"shimmering-details-volume-i-9781250338235","title":"Shimmering Details, Volume I","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe magnum opus of one of Europe's greatest living writers. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"When telling one's life story to someone else one manufactures not chronicles but legends for oneself,\" Péter Nádas writes in his fiction masterpiece, \u003ci\u003eParallel Stories\u003c\/i\u003e. Now, in his illuminating memoir, \u003ci\u003eShimmering Details\u003c\/i\u003e, the renowned author investigates what it means to reconstruct a life without recourse to the techniques and embellishments of traditional storytelling. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTaking his firmly embedded memories--the \"shimmering details\" that give this work its title--as his starting point, Nádas dissects them using a method inspired by Freudian dream interpretation. Sounds, scenes, smells, feelings--all are probed for details that might allow him to reconstruct what happened, and when and where. To avoid conscious or unconscious distortions, he deconstructs the stories of others, too--moving in concentric circles toward cause and effect, until their meaning and significance come to light. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eShimmering Details, Volume I\u003c\/i\u003e, Nádas probes the history of his family from the late nineteenth century to his birth in 1942 and beyond. In a work that encompasses World War II and the Hungarian Revolution, Nádas traces the hidden connections between the seemingly random events of a life and assembles them into a memoir like no other.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador Paper\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/19\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250338235\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 576\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.25h x 5.38w x 1.43d","brand":"P?ter N?das","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44848936386741,"sku":"9781250338235","price":21.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_be668a89-0c36-43e1-b047-74240b9a23f2.jpg?v=1732634332","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/shimmering-details-volume-i-9781250338235","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}