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Mircea Cartarescu
A mesmerizing novel about the magical and gritty world of Bucharest in the 1980s by a celebrated Eastern European writer
‘Gripping, impassioned, unexpected’ Los Angeles Times
A dreamlike novel of…
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Based on Cartarescu's own experience as a teacher, Solenoid submerges us in the mundane details of a diarist's life and spirals into an existential account of history, philosophy and mathematics…
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A highly-acclaimed master work of fiction from Cartarescu, author of Blinding: an existence (and eventually a cosmos) created by forking paths.
Based on Cartarescu’s own role as a high school…
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A stunning translation of one of Romania’s foremost authors.
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With fiction by Gina Apostol, Mircea Cartarescu (translated by Sean Cotter) and Itamar Vieira Junior (translated by Johnny Lorenz), non-fiction by Ariel Saramandi, interviews with Siri Hustvedt, Sara Ahmed, Bani…
