Norman Manea

The Black Envelope

Buch

A splendid, violent spring suddenly grips Bucharest in the 1980s after a brutal winter. Tolea, a defiant and eccentric middle-aged intellectual who has been dismissed from his job as a high-school teacher on moral grounds, is attempting to clear up the mystery of his father's death forty years after the fact. He is gradually and irresistibly drawn into a web of suspicion in which images of an underground world linger obsessively: the organization of deaf-mutes whose nightmarish presence recalls the Single Party itself; the polite and timid informer, with his modest, homely reports; the black dog who has the same name as, and seems to be a met… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Camiller, Patrick (Übers.)

ISBN: 978-0-8101-1377-0
EAN: 9780810113770
Produktnummer: 9053816
Verlag: Northwestern Univ Pr
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 1996
Seitenangabe: 329 S.
Masse: H21.2 cm x B13.8 cm x D2.0 cm 440 g
Auflage: Translated
Gewicht: 440

Über den Autor

Norman Manea (born July 19, 1936) is a Jewish Romanian writer and author of short fiction, novels, and essays about the Holocaust, daily life in a communist state, and exile. He is a Francis Flournoy Professor of European Culture and writer in residence at Bard College. He currently lives with his wife in New York City.