
Blinding: The Left Wing
Mircea Cartarescu(Author)
Penguin Classics (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 28. January 2027
Book
Paperback/Softback
432 pages
978-0-241-75490-0 (ISBN)
Description
'We exist between the past and future like the vermiform body of a butterfly, in between its two wings'
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.
Translated from Romanian by Sean Cotter
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Language
English
Publishing group
Penguin Books Ltd (UK)
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 35 mm
Weight
500 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-241-75490-0 (9780241754900)
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Persons
Mircea Cartarescu (b. 1956) is Romania's most celebrated writer. His books, including Theodoros, Solenoid, the trilogy Blinding, and Nostalgia have been translated into over twenty languages. Solenoid was longlisted for the International Booker Prize and he has received many awards, including the Dublin Literary Award and the Thomas Mann Prize.