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Captives

✍ Scribed by Manea, Norman

Book ID: 109151091
Publisher: New Directions
Year: 2014
Tongue: English
Weight: 217 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9780811220477

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✦ Synopsis

A stunning novel set in postwar Romania about language, identity, and loss.

Captives , the acclaimed writer Norman Manea's first novel, is a fascinating, kaleidoscopic, and imaginative look into postwar Romania. Divided into three sections—narrated in first-, second-, and third-person voices— Captives explores the lives of several defeated characters as they become almost too much to bear under the weight of endless humiliations: loss of identity, trauma of having survived the Second World War, and submission to the totalitarian state.

This is a moving account of a country shaken by communism and anti-Semitism and haunted by recent atrocities, from "a distinguished writer whose vision of totalitarianism is close to Kafka's cloudy menace, universal yet internalized" (Richard Eder, The New York Times).

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