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      The Black Envelope

      by Norman Manea
      Published
      Jun 1995
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      Suspense Suspense
      Pages
      329
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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 forty years after the fact, and is drawn into a web of suspicion and black humor.

      "Reading 'The Black Envelope,' one might think of the poisonous 'black milk' of Celan's 'Death Fugue' or the claustrophobic air of mounting terror in Mr. Appelfeld's 'Badenheim 1939.' . . . Mr. Manea offers striking images and insights into the recent experience of Eastern Europe."—New York Times Book Review

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      First Edition Jun 1995 Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN13 9780374113971 ISBN10 0374113971
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