The Black Envelope
Download or Read eBook The Black Envelope PDF written by Norman Manea and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Norman Manea |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 327 |
| Release | : 2012-04-24 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780300188622 |
| ISBN-13 | : 0300188625 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis The Black Envelope by : Norman Manea
Book excerpt: 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"
