{"product_id":"nostalgia-short-stories-paperback","title":"Nostalgia: Short Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMircea Cartarescu\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJulian Semilian\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eAndrei Codrescu\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMircea Cartarescu, born in 1956, is one of Romania's leading novelists and poets. This translation of his 1989 novel \u003cem\u003eNostalgia\u003c\/em\u003e, writes Andrei Codrescu, \"introduces to English a writer who has always had a place reserved for him in a constellation that includes the Brothers Grimm, Franz Kafka, Jorge Luis Borges, Bruno Schulz, Julio Cortazar, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Milan Kundera, and Milorad Pavic, to mention just a few.\" Like most of his literary contemporaries of the avant-garde Eighties Generation, his major work has been translated into several European languages, with the notable exception, until now, of English.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Readers opening the pages of \u003cem\u003eNostalgia\u003c\/em\u003e should brace themselves for a verbal tidal wave of the imagination that will wash away previous ideas of what a novel is or ought to be. Although each of its five chapters is separate and stands alone, a thematic, even mesmeric harmony finds itself in children's games, the music of the spheres, humankind's primordial myth-making, the origins of the universe, and in the dilapidated tenement blocks of an apocalyptic Bucharest during the years of communist dictatorship.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 361\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.01 x 9.02 x 6.16 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 17, 2005\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757708640544,"sku":"9780811215886","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/fb42c8d62d7a2e4822b0c165ec3ab80b.webp?v=1780109694","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/nostalgia-short-stories-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}