{"product_id":"book-of-memories-a","title":"Book Of Memories A","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Book of Memories\u003c\/i\u003e is made up of three first-person narratives: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first, that of a young Hungarian writer and his fated love for a German poet; we also learn of the narrator''s adolescence in Budapest, when he experiences the downfall of his once upper-class but now pro-Communist family. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA second memoir, alternating with the first, is a novel the narrator is composing about a refined \u003ci\u003eBelle Epoque\u003c\/i\u003e aesthete, whose anti-bourgeois transgressions seem like emotionally overcharged versions of the narrator''s own experiences. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA third voice is that of a childhood friend who, after the narrator''s return to his homeland, offers an apparently more objective account of their friendship. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTogether these brilliantly coloured lives are integrated into a powerful work of tragic intensity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57319967162750,"sku":"NW9780099766315","price":12.84,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780099766315.jpg?v=1778243510","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/book-of-memories-a","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}