Unavailable for over twenty years, Agota Kristof's modern European classic The Notebook is re-issued by CBe alongside the first English translation of The Illiterate, Kristof's memoir of how she escaped from Hungary in 1956 and began to write The Notebook. Sent to a remote village for the duration of the war, two children devise physical and mental exercises to render themselves invulnerable to pain and sentiment. They steal, kill, blackmail and survive; others - the cobbler, the harelipped girl who craves love, the children's parents - are sucked into war's brutal maelstrom. The Notebook distils the experience of Nazi occupation and Soviet `liberation' during World War II into a stark fable of timeless relevance.
- ISBN13 9780957326699
- Publish Date 14 January 2014 (first published 13 July 1989)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 31 March 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint CB Editions
- Format Paperback
- Pages 174
- Language English