Solenoid

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

AvMircea Cartarescu

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LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2025

WINNER OF THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD AND THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR FICTION

'An instant classic' New York Times

Based on Cartarescu's own experience as a teacher, Solenoid submerges us in the mundane details of a diarist's life and spirals into an existential account of history, philosophy and mathematics. Grounded in the reality of communist Romania, it grapples with frightening health care, the absurdities of the education system and the struggles of family life, while investigating other universes and forking paths.

In a surreal journey like no other, we visit a tuberculosis preventorium, an anti-death protest movement, a society of dream investigators and a minuscule world of dust mites living on a microscope slide. Combining fiction with autobiography and history, Solenoid searches for escape routes through the alternate dimensions of life and art, as various monstrous realities erupt within the present.

PRAISE FOR SOLENOID

'Cartarescu is no longer writing novels. He is officiating a cult' TLS

'A bravura performance' The Nation

'Surreal and viscerally political' FT

'Nothing short of remarkable' Los Angeles Review of Books

'A masterpiece' Astra Magazine

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2024-06-06
Mått190 x 30 x 120 mm
Vikt465 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor640
FörlagPushkin Press
ISBN9781805333197
ÖversättareCotter, Sean

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Mircea Cartarescu is a writer, professor, and journalist who has published more than twenty-five books. His work has received the Formentor Prize (2018), the Thomas Mann Prize (2018), the Austrian State Prize for Literature (2015), and the Vilenica Prize (2011), among many others. His work has been translated in twenty-three languages. His novel Blinding was published by Archipelago in Sean Cotter's English translation.