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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 Romania and
is reunited with his friend Gunther, an unrepentant Marxist exiled
in Berlin. Their meeting sparks a spirited dialogue that endures
throughout the Nomadic Misanthrope’s subsequent decades in the
United States. At the center of the plot is the figure of the
shadow—the insubstantial shape of the exile, the wandering Jew,
the death camp survivor, the individual under totalitarianism, the
dark side of the Jungian personality—a figure that calls into
question the boundaries of the human condition. Â Recalling
the beloved nineteenth-century German tale of Peter Schlemihl, the
man who sold his shadow for a bag of gold, this is Norman Manea’s
most daring work yet: an intimate record of alienation and
endurance.
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