Péter Esterházy Book order

The Esterházys, one of Europe's most prominent aristocratic families, are closely linked to the rise and fall of the Hapsburg Empire. Princes, counts, commanders, diplomats, bishops, and patrons of the arts, revered, respected, and occasionally feared by their contemporaries, their story is as complex as the history of Hungary itself. Celestial Harmonies is the intricate chronicle of this remarkable family, a saga spanning seven centuries of epic conquest, tragedy, triumph, and near annihilation. Told by Péter Esterházy, a scion of this populous clan, Celestial Harmonies is dazzling in scope and profound in implication. It is fiction at its most awe-inspiring. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.

In ninety-seven short chapters Péter Esterházy contemplates love and hate, sex and desire, from the point of a view of a narrator who considers himself a great lover, a man who may (or may not) be in love with all the women in the world.

Esterházy, whom we know by his unforgettable A Little Hungarian Pornography, achieved in this book a real literarian tour-de-force which mixes most unexpected and revealing ingredients. Two brothers and a sister, summoned by their father and reunited at the hospital where their mother lies on her deathbed, must come to grips with their relationships with both their parents.