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A Lovely Tale of Photography

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ABOUT
THE BOOK

A Lovely Tale of Photography is a hallucinatory novella about a female photographer who is suffering from an undetermined illness. Confined to a sanatorium, where she is surrounded by a cast of stock characters speaking various languages, she is made to confront a reality other than that framed by her camera.

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR Peter
Nadas

ABOUT
THE TRANSLATOR Imre
Goldstein

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Country
Hungary
Original Language
Hungarian
Author
Publisher
A. A. Knopf, Twisted Spoon Press
Translator
Imre Goldstein

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