The Book of Fathers
Vamos Miklos, Peter Sherwood (translation)No matter the outcome, each generation records its astonishing, vivid, & revelatory visions into a battered journal that becomes known as The Book of Fathers. For three hundred years the Csillag family line meanders unbroken across Hungary's rivers & vineyards, through a land overrun by wolves & bandits, scarred by plague & massacre, & brutalized by despots.
Impetuous, tenderhearted, & shrewd, the Csillags give birth to scholars & gamblers, artists and entrepreneurs. Led astray by unruly passions, they marry frigid French noblewomen & thieving alehouse whores. They change their name & their religion, & change them back. They wander from home but always return, & through it all The Book of Fathers bears witness to holocaust & wedding feast alike.