Norman Manea

Captives

Buch

Captives, the acclaimed writer Norman Manea's first novel, is a fascinating, kaleidoscopic, and imaginative look into postwar Romania. Divided into three sections-narrated in first-, second-, and third-person voices-Captives explores the lives of several defeated characters as they become almost too much to bear under the weight of endless humiliations: loss of identity, trauma of having survived the Second World War, and submission to the totalitarian state. This is a moving account of a country shaken by communism and anti-Semitism and haunted by recent atrocities, from a distinguished writer whose vision of totalitarianism is close to Kafk… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Harris, Jean (Übers.)

ISBN: 978-0-8112-2047-7
EAN: 9780811220477
Produktnummer: 15899856
Verlag: New Directions
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Seitenangabe: 288 S.
Masse: H20.1 cm x B13.5 cm x D2.0 cm 277 g
Gewicht: 277

Über den Autor

Norman Manea is the Francis Flournoy Professor of European Culture and writer-in-residence at Bard College. As a child, Manea was deported to Transnistria by the Romanian fascist government, and in 1986 he went into exile from Ceausescu's dictatorship. Since arriving in the West he has received many important awards, has been the subject of a New Yorker profile, and his work has been translated into more than twenty languages.