{"product_id":"shimmering-details-volume-i-a-memoir","title":"Shimmering Details, Volume I: A Memoir","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eShimmering Details, Volume I: A Memoir\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003ePéter Nádas\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781250338235\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003ePicador\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2024\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe magnum opus of one of Europe's greatest living writers. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\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.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Shimmering Details, Volume I: A Memoir | Péter Nádas | Paperback | 9781250338235 | New | Memoir 1623273","offer_id":50694680969474,"sku":"1623273","price":38.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/71_-mCidWUL.jpg?v=1791558867","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/shimmering-details-volume-i-a-memoir","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}