Blinding: The Left Wing - Mircea Cartarescu Alice and Mattia also move

Alice and Mattia also move on their own axes

this funny and hugely imaginative book paints an extraordinary picture of a small community of Ukrainian immigrants as they succeed in pioneering a new life in a new land over three generations

judges and entrepreneurs who have collaborated with them

caught between two countries

Blinding: The Left Wing - Mircea Cartarescu Alice and Mattia also moveBeneath the streets of communist Bucharest linger hidden passageways, lost to memory. Here, sprawling hospitals give way to travelling circuses and underground jazz clubs, and Cartarescus 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 Cartarescus Blinding is one of the most widely heralded literary