Shimmering Details, Volume I

A memoir in two volumes. Rather than produce the legends people tell when they recount their lives, the writer starts from memories burned into him, the shimmering details, and uses the method of dream interpretation to recover what made up each original experience: sounds, sights, smells. Moving from a childhood hike in the hills near Budapest to the history of his family, the book sets his early life and family lore against twentieth-century Budapest, the Second World War and the camps.

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About the book

Form

Nonfiction

Length

1212 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Hungary, 20th century

First published

2017 by Jelenkor

Author's age

75 when first published

ISBN

9789636765620 (original)

9780374174590 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, United States)