Blinding (Orbitor #1)

Mircea Cărtărescu


Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
4.08 · 20 ratings · 464 pages · Published: 25 Mar 1996

Blinding by Mircea Cărtărescu
Part visceral dream-memoir, part fictive journey through a hallucinatory Bucharest, Mircea Cărtărescu's BLINDING was one of the most widely heralded literary sensations in contemporary Romania, and a bestseller from the day of its release. Riddled with hidden passageways, mesmerizing tapestries, and whispering butterflies, BLINDING takes us on a mystical trip into the protagonist’s childhood, his memories of hospitalization as a teenager, the prehistory of his family, a traveling circus, secret police, zombie armies, American fighter pilots, the jazz underworld of New Orleans, and the installation of the Communist regime. This kaleidoscopic world is both eerily familiar and profoundly new. Readers of BLINDING will emerge from its strange pilgrimage shaken, and entirely transformed.

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