{"product_id":"9780811215886","title":"Nostalgia: Short Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA stunning translation of one of Romania's foremost authors.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eReaders 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.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42370119041085,"sku":"9780811215886","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780811215886_p0.jpg?v=1771580310","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9780811215886","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}