The Black Envelope

By Norman Manea

Book Overview

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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300182945
• ISBN13: 9780300182941
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.1" x 7.7"