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Now available for the first time in English, Manea's acclaimed novel of emigres in America, free yet imprisoned by the past Norman Manea, Romania's most famous contemporary author, twice has survived the grip of totalitarian regimes. No stranger t...

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A passionate exploration of language, censorship, and exile by the celebrated Romanian writer Norman Manea "Manea demonstrates that he is an indispensable analyst of what it means to be a Romanian, and a Romanian Jew, and a writer, under fasc...

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A melancholy tale of searching-for documents, for truth, for coffee-from the Romanian master A splendid, violent spring suddenly grips Bucharest in the 1980s after a brutal winter. Tolea, an eccentric middle-aged intellectual who has been dismisse...

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In cool, precise prose, and with an unerring sense of the absurd, the four novellas of Compulsory Happiness create a picture of everyday life in a grotesque police state, expressing terror and hope, fear and solidarity, the humorous triviality of ...

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Now available for the first time in English, Manea's acclaimed novel of émigrés in America, free yet imprisoned by the past Norman Manea, Romania's most famous contemporary author, twice has survived the grip of totalitarian ...

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Deported to a concentration camp from 1941 until the end of the war, Norman Manea again left his native Romania in 1986 to escape the Ceausescu regime. He now lives in New York. In this selection of essays, he explores the language and psyche of t...

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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 "e;moral grounds,"e; is investigating his ...

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In cool, precise prose, and with an unerring sense of the absurd, the four novellas of Compulsory Happiness create a picture of everyday life in a grotesque police state, expressing terror and hope, fear and solidarity, the humorous triviality of ...

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Romanian exile Norman Manea's internationally acclaimed memoir/novel, now available to English-language readers "A fascinating, beguiling record of the almost incredible events that can transpire in one life, especially if that life is lived ...

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Now available for the first time in English, Manea's acclaimed novel of emigres in America, free yet imprisoned by the past Norman Manea, Romania's most famous contemporary author, twice has survived the grip of totalitarian regimes. No stranger t...

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Romanian exile Norman Manea’s internationally acclaimed memoir/novel, now available to English-language readers At the center of The Hooligan’s Return is the author himself, always an outcast, on a bleak lifelong journey through Nazism...

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A virtuoso collage novel about narrative, identity, and exile, from international literary sensation Norman Manea In this vibrant mosaic of voices, sources, and stories, the protagonist, known only as the Nomadic Misanthrope, leaves communist Roma...

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A collection of short stories stemming from the Romanian author's detention in a Nazi concentration camp as a child evokes a sense of the horror and absurdity of war and Romanian politics.

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In cool, precise prose, and with an unerring sense of the absurd, Norman Manea's four novellas create a picture of everyday life in a grotesque police state, expressing terror and hope, fear and solidarity, the humorous triviality of the ordinary,...

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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...

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New writings on our fear ofand fascination withthe ';other' from Joyce Carol Oates, Peter Straub, Kelly Link, Jeffrey Ford, and more.Alien is a powerful and flexible word. Aliens are ';other.' Aliens are the stuff of science fiction and fantasy. A...

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Joyce Carol Oates, Ann Beattie, Diane Ackerman, and more explore the double-edged sword of curiosity ... Curiosity is as central to life as breathing. And like breath itself, when it ceases, the vibrancy of life fades and disappears. Curiosity lea...

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This ';exhilarating novel' of love, longing, and exile ';captures the passion of a century in turmoil' (Rahna Reiko Rizzuto, author of Hiroshima in the Morning). From the ';outstanding' Czech writer Monika Zgustova, The Silent Woman depicts a twen...

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A new translation of the only novel by lauded Romanian literary critic Matei CălinescuAn NYRB Classics Original Ugly, unkempt, a haunter of low dives who begs for a living and lives on the street, Zacharias Lichter exists for all that in a st...

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Words & Images: the Jerusalem Literary Project is a non-profit endeavor dedicated to the documentation and preservation of in-depth interviews with leading Jewish writers and thinkers of our time, invited to talk about their oeuvre, personal h...

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"Norman Manea ist ein glänzender Schriftsteller, der das Poetische noch im Ungesagten spürbar zu machen vermag." Ina Hartwig, Laudatio zum Nelly-Sachs-PreisDas beeindruckende Spätwerk des großen rumänischen Autors Norman Manea: Kurz vor ...

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En berättelse om en grupp författare och litteratuhistoriker som under kommunisttiden flytt Rumänien för USA och som utgör ett mycket speciellt "hemligt sällskap": de känner till varandras forna liv i Rumänien med allt vad det innebär - ...

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Norman Manea föddes i Rumänien 1936 - fel plats, fel tid, åtminstone om man var jude. Han tillbringade en stor del av sin barndom i ett koncentrationsläger i Transnistrien, dit han och hans judiska familj deporterats. När han återvände till civili...

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Traducere de Orlando Balas O suita de convorbiri incitante intre un scriitor ? Norman Manea ? si un jurnalist ? Hannes Stein ? cu trasee asemanatoare. Amindoi s-au stabilit la New York departe de locurile natale dupa ?escale? mai scurte sau mai lu...

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