Three years ago, Hungarian writer Pe{acute}ter Na{acute}das made his American debut with A Book of Memories, a multi-layered novel that, like Proust's epic, explores the ways memories evolve and erode over time. Love (Farrar Straus Giroux, $20), Na{acute}das's latest novel to be released here, also limns memory's dangers, but on a smaller scale. Unfolding over the course of a night, the book reads like a sensual, fevered dream. An unnamed man visits his girlfriend in an apartment in an anonymous European city. After they smoke a joint and make love, a strange change overcomes him. Sex and drug...
