Solenoid - Mircea Cartarescu weaving the tale of her

weaving the tale of her mother and grandmother through a history of intrigue

and from satirical epistolary tales to imaginative historical fiction

plastering over cracks – the stories inhabiting them awaken

The collection features stories by some of Korea's greatest writers

Mephistopheles

Solenoid - Mircea Cartarescu weaving the tale of herBased on Cartarescu's own experience as a teacher, Solenoid submerges us in the mundane details of a diarist's life and spirals into an existential account of history, philosophy and mathematics. Grounded in the reality of communist Romania, it grapples with frightening health care, the absurdities of the education system and the struggles of family life, while investigating other universes and forking paths. In a surreal journey like no other, we