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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.

Product details

• Authors: Patrick Camiller, Norman Manea, Manea Norman
• Assisted by: Patrick Camiller (Translation)
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.04.2012
• EAN: 9780300182941
• ISBN: 978-0-300-18294-1
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters; Margellos World Republic of Le; The Margellos World Republic of Letters
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > History; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Fiction in translation, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary