Hooligan''s Return - A Memoir

Deals with the bloodiest time of the twentieth century and of the emergence afterwards of a global, competitive and sometimes cynical modern society. The author takes you on a bleak lifelong journey through Nazism and communism and to his exile in America.

Info autore

Norman Manea is Francis Flournoy Professor of European Culture and writer-in-residence at Bard College. Deported from his native Romania to a Ukrainian concentration camp during World War Two, he was again forced to leave Romania in 1986, no longer safe under an intolerant Communist dictatorship. Since arriving in the West he has received many important awards, and his work has been translated into more than twenty languages. He lives in New York City. Angela Jianu is a translator and historian. She teaches at University of Warwick.

Riassunto

Romanian exile Norman Manea's internationally acclaimed memoir/novel, now available to English-language readers

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Norman Manea
• Con la collaborazione di: Angela Jianu (Traduzione)
• Editore: Yale University Press Ltd
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 22.10.2013
• EAN: 9780300197808
• ISBN: 978-0-300-19780-8
• Pagine: 400
• Serie: The Margellos World Republic of Letters; The Margellos World Republic of Letters; World Republic of Letters (Yale); World Republic of Letters
• Categorie: Saggistica > Arte, letteratura > Biografie, autobiografie; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia