Peter Nadas (b. 1942) is a Hungarian author, very famous in the world. “The End of a Family Romance,” like many other works of this master of words, has been translated into several European languages. It amazes with its linguistic richness and uniqueness of style, its bold interweaving of time layers - through the history of one family, the entire history of mankind fits into the short life of a boy, one of the innocent victims of the tragedy that befell Hungary after the Second World War. Subtle psychologism and uncompromising frankness put the author on a par with Thomas Mann and make Nadash a world-famous writer.