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The Black Envelope

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Format: Paperback
Library Classification: Adult Fiction
BIC Subjects: General & literary fiction
Publisher: Yale University Press
Imprint: Yale University Press
Publication Date: 24/04/2012
Place of Publication: United States

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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. "Reading 'The Black Envelope, ' one might think of the poisonous 'black milk' of Celan's 'Death Fugue' or the claustrophobic air of mounting terror in Mr. Appelfeld's 'Badenheim 1939.' . . . Mr. Manea offers striking images and insights into the recent experience of Eastern Europe."--"New York Times Book Review".

"Reading The Black Envelope, one might think of the poisonous 'black milk' of Celan's Death Fugue or the claustrophobic air of mounting terror in Mr. Appelfeld's Badenheim 1939... Mr. Manea offers striking images and insights into the recent experience of Eastern Europe." (New York Times Book Review) "A vortex of imponderables: an elusive mystery story, a penetrating X-ray of Romania in the 1980s, a Kafkaesque parable of a world turned upside down in our nightmarish century. It's an enigmatic and deeply compelling novel." (Edward Hirsch)"

Title: The Black Envelope
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Contributors: By (author) Norman Manea ; Translated by Patrick Camiller

ISBN 13: 9780300182941
ISBN 10: 0300182945

Publisher: Yale University Press
Imprint: Yale University Press
Publication Date: 24/04/2012
Place of Publication: New Haven, United States
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BIC Subjects: General & literary fiction
NBS Classification: General & Literary Fiction
Dewey Classification: 859.334 (DC23) ; 859.334 (DC21)

Format: Paperback
Pages: 336
Height: 197mm
Width: 127mm
Thickness: 23mm
Weight: 345g