Captives

von Norman Manea

288 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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).

• Themen: Belletristik Biografischer Roman / Autobiografischer Roman
• ISBN: 9780811220477
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 11.12.2014
• Größe: 201 x 135 mm
• Verlag: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Übersetzung: Jean Harris