Memoirs of an Anti-Semite Tumbleweed where western music and culture

where western music and culture were forbidden

funny and moving novel about an ageing beauty in 1960s Lagos

we travel on with him across the great Hungarian Plain on horseback

A filmed appreciation by Peter Hames

Memoirs of an Anti-Semite Tumbleweed where western music and cultureThe elusive narrator of this beautifully written, complex, and powerfully disconcerting novel is the scion of a decayed aristocratic family from the farther reaches of the defunct Austro Hungarian Empire. In five psychologically fraught episodes, he revisits his past, from adolescence to middle age, a period that coincides with the twentieth centurys ugliest years. Central to each episode is what might be called the narrators Jewish Question. He is no