Mircea Cartarescu Nostalgia Paperback Book

Cartarescu is one of the great literary voices of Central Europe Olga Tokarczuk, Nobel Prize winner and author of FlightsA Danubian Narnia. . . his writing delivers a rainbowhued riot of fantasy, imagination and invention Boyd Tonkin, SpectatorA dreamlike novel of memory and magic, Nostalgia turns the dark world of Communist Bucharest into a place of strange enchantments. Here a man plays increasingly deathdefying games of Russian Roulette, a child messiah works his magic in the tenements, a young man explores gender boundaries, a woman relives her youth and an architect becomes obsessed with the sound of his new car horn with unexpected consequences. Blending reality and symbolism, time and myth, this is a cult masterwork from Romanias most celebrated writer. | Mircea Cartarescu Nostalgia Paperback Book