The Black Envelope (Paperback)

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 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. Norman Manea's enigmatic and artful novel-set against the backdrop of life under the repressive Ceausescu regime-depicts the chaos and deprivation of Tolea's existence, and his tenuous grip on reality.

General

Imprint:	Yale University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	The Margellos World Republic of Letters
Release date:	April 2012
First published:	April 2012
Authors:	Norman Manea
Translators:	Patrick Camiller
Dimensions:	197 x 127 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	336
ISBN-13:	978-0-300-18294-1
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-300-18294-5
Barcode:	9780300182941

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