Blinding: The Left Wing - Mircea Cartarescu But if Faust does bid

But if Faust does bid the moment stay

caught between two countries

is investigating a ritual murder but chances upon something more horrifying even than the bodies in the trees – the last bodies he sees

” that is

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

Blinding: The Left Wing - Mircea Cartarescu But if Faust does bidBeneath 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