Black Envelope

Klappentext A melancholy tale of searching--for documents, for truth, for coffee--from the Romanian master 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. Norman Manea's enigmatic and artful novel--set against the backdrop of life under the repressive Ceausescu regime--depicts the chaos and deprivation of Tolea's existence, and his tenuous grip on reality. Zusammenfassung 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 humour.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Patrick Camiller, Norman Manea, Manea Norman
• Mitarbeit: Patrick Camiller (Übersetzung)
• Verlag: Yale University Press Ltd
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 24.04.2012
• EAN: 9780300182941
• ISBN: 978-0-300-18294-1
• Seiten: 336
• Serien: The Margellos World Republic of Letters; Margellos World Republic of Le; The Margellos World Republic of Letters
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Fiction in translation, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary