| The Black Envelope Translated Edition Contributor(s): Manea, Norman (Author), Camiller, Patrick (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0810113775 ISBN-13: 9780810113770 Publisher: Northwestern University Press OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1996 Annotation: A splendid, violent spring suddenly grips Bucharest in the 1980s after a brutal winter. Tolea, a defiant and eccentric middle-aged intellectual who has been dismissed from his job as a high-school teacher on "moral grounds", is attempting to clear up the mystery of his father's death forty years after the fact. He is gradually and irresistibly drawn into a web of suspicion in which images of an underground world linger obsessively: the organization of deaf-mutes whose nightmarish presence recalls the Single Party itself; the polite and timid informer, with his modest, homely reports; the black dog who has the same name as, and seems to be a metamorphosis of, the man pursued by Tolea - an elusive photographer who has left an astonishing photo archive of Communist society. Shot through with black humor and poetry, The Black Envelope is a thoroughly modern exploration of love and guilt, vulnerability and death, estrangement, hope, and human solidarity. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 96007111 |
| Physical Information: 0.77" H x 5.42" W x 8.36" (0.97 lbs) 329 pages |
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| Publisher Description: A splendid, violent spring suddenly grips Bucharest in the 1980s after a brutal winter. Tolea, an eccentric middle-aged intellectual who has been dismissed from his job as a high school teacher on moral grounds, is investigating his father's death forty years after the fact, and is drawn into a web of suspicion and black humor. |