| Blinding Contributor(s): Cartarescu, Mircea (Author), Cotter, Sean (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1935744844 ISBN-13: 9781935744849 Publisher: Archipelago Books OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2013 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Sagas - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2013014103 |
| Physical Information: 1.38" H x 6.28" W x 7.08" (1.37 lbs) 464 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Part visceral dream-memoir, part fictive journey through a hallucinatory Bucharest, Mircea Cărtărescu's Blinding was one of the most widely heralded literary sensations in contemporary Romania, and a bestseller from the day of its release. Riddled with hidden passageways, mesmerizing tapestries, and whispering butterflies, Blinding takes us on a mystical trip into the protagonist's childhood, his memories of hospitalization as a teenager, the prehistory of his family, a traveling circus, Secret police, zombie armies, American fighter pilots, the underground jazz scene of New Orleans, and the installation of the communist regime. This kaleidoscopic world is both eerily familiar and profoundly new. Readers of Blinding will emerge from this strange pilgrimage shaken, and entirely transformed. |