{"product_id":"nostalgia-short-stories","title":"Nostalgia: Short Stories","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eNostalgia: Short Stories\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eMircea Cartarescu\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780811215886\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eNew Directions\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2005\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eF First Edition Thus\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\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\/body\u003e","brand":"New Directions","offers":[{"title":"Nostalgia: Short Stories | Mircea Cartarescu | Book | 9780811215886 | New | Fiction 1414653","offer_id":50562296381698,"sku":"1414653","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/418zVJLFLqL.jpg?v=1790719813","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/nostalgia-short-stories","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}