Nádas Péter: Love

The man has actually come to tell his lover that he wants to leave her, but as soon as he walks in he realises he won't be able to tell her. The woman rolls a joint. They smoke it. And as they drift into another state of mind, he approaches the border zones between being and nonbeing, between living and imagining. Or is it between life and death? From the acclaimed author of A Book of Memories - 'The greatest novel written in our time, and one of the great books of the century' (Susan Sontag) - we now have this unsettling and strangely beautiful exploration of the impossibility, but the redeeming necessity, of love. The mysterious music and physical intensity of the narration will be familiar to readers of Peter Nádas's other fiction, but Love is a radical new departure.