Blinding by Mircea Cartarescu
Mircea Cartarescu's prize-winning, genre-crossing memoir-novel of hallucinatory Bucharest is a bestseller in Romania. Blinding follows the protagonist's childhood and teenaged hospitalisation, his family's migration from Bulgaria the century before, his parents' courtship and the installation of the Communist regime. Personal and political history forms a lush backdrop to an engrossing tale that connects a travelling circus, secret police, zombie armies, American fighter pilots and New Orleanian swamps.
Mircea Cartarescu is a Romanian poet, novelist, and essayist. He is the author of El Rutelista. Marian Ochoa de Eribe also translated Cartarescu's Ruletistu to Spanish. Carlos Pardo is an editor and a poet who is one of the organizers of Cosmopoü¾Ž–”¼tica, an annual poetry festival held in Cordoba, Spain.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781935744849 |
| ISBN 10 | 1935744844 |
| Title | Blinding |
| Author | Mircea Cartarescu |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Archipelago Books |
| Year published | 2013-10-15 |
| Number of pages | 464 |
| Prizes | Commended for Best Translated Book Award (Fiction) 2014 |
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