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'This is writing of overwhelming accomplishment' Chris Power, Observer
An enthralling, hallucinatory masterwork by one of Central Europe’s most celebrated novelists
‘We exist between the past and future like the vermiform body of a butterfly, in between its two wings’
Beneath the streets of communist Bucharest linger hidden passageways, lost to memory. Here, sprawling hospitals give way to travelling circuses and underground jazz clubs, and Cartarescu’s childhood, prehistory and visionary fever dreams are woven into the landscape of the city, haunted by secret police and zombie hoards.
Part visceral dream-memoir, part phantasmic pilgrimage, Mircea Cartarescu’s Blinding is one of the most widely heralded literary sensations in contemporary Romania, and a fascinating, kaleidoscopic journey into the past.
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About the author
Mircea Cartarescu (b. 1956) is Romania’s most celebrated writer. His books, including Theodoros, Solenoid, the trilogy Blinding, and Nostalgia have been translated into over twenty languages. Solenoid was longlisted for the International Booker Prize and he has received many awards, including the Dublin Literary Award and the Thomas Mann Prize.
Sean Cotter (Translator)
Sean Cotter is Professor of Literature and Translation Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas. He has received the Best Translated Book Award for Poetry and multiple grants from the National Endowment for the Arts.
