No Live Files Remain
By (Author) Andras Forgach
Simon & Schuster Ltd
Scribner UK
5th April 2018
United Kingdom
Hardback
400
Width 135mm, Height 216mm, Spine 26mm
For readers of The Lives of Others and The Reader, and based on a true story, No Live Files Remain is a beautiful and moving novel of family, lies, betrayaland forgiveness.
He wanted tounderstandthe past.
Now he must live with the truth.
Thirty years after the fall of communism in Hungary,as acclaimed writer, translator, dramatist and visual artist Andras Forgachinvestigated his family's past heuncovered a horrifying truth. His mother, whom he deeply loved, had been an informant for the Kadar regime. She had informed not only on acquaintances but onfamily, friends and even her children.
In the eagerly anticipatedNo Live Files Remain, with rights sold around the world, Forgach gives voice to his deceased mother, holding her responsible for her deeds while defending the memories he cherished of her as a son, and imagining her response.
'Mother wasn't lacking in evocativeness, no, no, I can affirm that. She was the firmament, the high sky, and she still is, even covered in heavy clouds.' Andras Forgach
Andras Forgach is a writer, translator, dramatist and visual artist. He was born in Hungary.