Norman Manea

• Feb-1992
• / Literary
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• May-1993
• / General Fiction
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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 the...

• Feb-1994
• / General Fiction
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• Jun-1995
• / Suspense
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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 ...

• Apr-2012
• / Literary
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Norman Manea, Romania's most famous contemporary author, twice has survived the grip of totalitarian regimes. No stranger to exile, he mines its complexities and disorientations in this extraordinarily compelling novel, The Lair. Exile in the motherl...

• Dec-2014
• / General Fiction
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A stunning novel set in postwar Romania about language, identity, and loss.Captives, the acclaimed writer Norman Manea's first novel, is a fascinating, kaleidoscopic, and imaginative look into postwar Romania. Divided into three sections�"narrated i...

• Aug-2023
• / Literary
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A virtuoso collage novel about narrative, identity, and exile, from international literary sensation Norman Manea  “Exiled Shadow belongs among the great, intricate, and uncompromising works of contemporary literature.” -- Jan Knoffeke, Neue...