The English translation by Judith Sollosy was published through Ecco Press in 2004.
[1][2][3] Celestial Harmonies is a largely autobiographical chronicle about the author's Hungarian noble family, the Esterházys, divided into two parts.
The second part, titled Confessions of an Esterházy Family, is about the life of the author's father and his experience of going from wealthy aristocrat to spied on labourer in communist Hungary.
[4] Publishers Weekly called it "a vast anti-epic" that comes off as a mixture of Vladimir Nabokov's Speak, Memory and Looney Tunes.
[5] The New Yorker wrote that "Esterházy’s attempt to explode epic until it resembles the shards and mirrors of his own style doesn’t quite live up to its ambition, though it yields many extraordinary moments".