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Nostalgia - Penguin Modern Classics
Mircea Cartarescu (author), Julian Semilian (translator)

Paperback original

Paperback (27 May 2021)


Cartarescu is one of the great literary voices of Central Europe Olga Tokarczuk, Nobel Prize winner and author of Flights

A Danubian Narnia. . . his writing delivers a rainbow-hued riot of fantasy, imagination and invention Boyd Tonkin, Spectator

A dreamlike novel of memory and magic, Nostalgia turns the dark world of Communist Bucharest into a place of strange enchantments. Here a man plays increasingly death-defying games of Russian Roulette, a child messiah works his magic in the tenements, a young man explores gender boundaries, a woman relives her youth and an architect becomes obsessed with the sound of his new car horn - with unexpected consequences.

Blending reality and symbolism, time and myth, this is a cult masterwork from Romanias most celebrated writer.


Product details

Format Paperback | 352 pages
Dimensions 129 x 198 x 20mm | 258g
Publication date 27 May 2021
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint PENGUIN CLASSICS
Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom
Language English
ISBN13 9780241448915
Bestsellers rank 14,800