Nostalgia Av Mircea Cartarescu

<p><b>''Cartarescu is one of the great literary voices of Central Europe'' Olga Tokarczuk, Nobel Prize winner and author of <i>Flights</i></b><br><br><b>''A Danubian Narnia. . . his writing delivers a rainbow-hued riot of fantasy, imagination and invention'' Boyd Tonkin, <i>Spectator</i></b><br><br>A dreamlike novel of memory and magic, <i>Nostalgia</i> turns the dark world of Communist Bucharest into a place of strange enchantments. Here a man plays increasingly death-defying games of Russian Roulette, a child messiah works his magic in the tenements, a young man explores gender boundaries, a woman relives her youth and an architect becomes obsessed with the sound of his new car horn - with unexpected consequences. <br><br>Blending reality and symbolism, time and myth, this is a cult masterwork from Romania''s most celebrated writer.</p>