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 and communism
to exile in America. But while Norman Manea's book is in many ways
a memoir, it is also a deeply imaginative work, traversing time and
place, life and literature, dream and reality, past and present.
Autobiographical events merge with historic elements, always
connecting the individual with the collective destiny. Manea speaks
of the bloodiest time of the twentieth century and of the emergence
afterward of a global, competitive, and sometimes cynical modern
society. Both a harrowing memoir and an ambitious epic project, The
Hooligan's Return achieves a subtle internal harmony as anxiety
evolves into a delicate irony and a burlesque fantasy. Beautifully
written and brilliantly conceived, this is the work of a writer
with an acute understanding of the vast human potential for both
evil and kindness, obedience and integrity.
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