{"product_id":"nostalgia-short-stories-9780811215886","title":"Nostalgia: Short Stories","description":"Mircea 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCartarescu, Mircea:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Mircea Cartarescu (b. 1956) is a Romanian author. He was recipient of the Romanian Writers Union prize in 1994 for \u003cem\u003eTravesti\u003c\/em\u003e and the Republic of Moldova prize in 1994, among many other awards. His work has been translated into English, French, Spanish, and German.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSemilian, Julian:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Julian Semilian is a Romanian-born poet, translator, novelist and filmmaker. He currently teaches film editing at the North Carolina School of the Arts, after a twenty-four-year career as a film editor in Hollywood. Before his translation of Cartarescu's \u003cem\u003eNostalgia\u003c\/em\u003e, he translated Paul Celan's \u003cem\u003eRomanian Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (Green Integer).","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50641406099730,"sku":"9780811215886","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_47424541-9289-44a6-ab57-ec34538702f2.jpg?v=1733014933","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/nostalgia-short-stories-9780811215886","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}