Blinding

Mircea Cartarescu

Beneath the streets of communist Bucharest linger hidden passageways, lost to memory. Here, sprawling hospitals give way to travelling circuses and underground jazz clubs, and Cartarescu's childhood, prehistory and visionary fever dreams are woven into the landscape of the city, haunted by secret police and zombie hoards. Part visceral dream-memoir, part phantasmic pilgrimage, Mircea Cartarescu's 'Blinding' is one of the most widely heralded literary sensations in contemporary Romania, and a fascinating, kaleidoscopic journey into the past.

Author(s): Cartarescu, Mircea
Binding: Paperback
Date of Publication: 13/11/2025
Pagination: 432 pages
Series: N/A
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Published By: Penguin Classics
Book Classification: Historical fiction|Narrative theme: Politics|Narrative theme: Sense of place|Fiction in translation|Classic fiction|Magical realism|Family life fiction|Biographical fiction
Dimensions: 216x136x33
Weight: 433
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9780241754894