Blinding: The Left Wing

Beneath the streets of communist Bucharest linger hidden passageways, lost to memory. Here, sprawling hospitals give way to travelling circuses and underground jazz clubs, and Cartarescu''s childhood, prehistory and visionary fever dreams are woven into the landscape of the city, haunted by secret police and zombie hoards. Part visceral dream-memoir, part phantasmic pilgrimage, Mircea Cartarescu''s Blinding is one of the most widely heralded literary sensations in contemporary Romania, and a fascinating, kaleidoscopic journey into the past.

Product details

• Authors: Mircea Cartarescu, Cartarescu Mircea
• Assisted by: Sean Cotter (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 13.11.2025
• EAN: 9780241754894
• ISBN: 978-0-241-75489-4
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 216 mm x 40 mm
• Series: Penguin International Writers
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Family Life / General, Historical fiction, FICTION / Biographical, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, FICTION / Magical Realism, Fiction in translation, Family life fiction, Narrative theme: Politics, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Magical Realism, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Romanian, FICTION / World Literature / Europe (General), Biographical fiction / autobiographical fiction, Bucharest, Classic fiction: general and literary