Blinding Author Surname:Cartarescu Auster's spin on the detective

Auster's spin on the detective story has been given a unique and unexpected new life

whose attempts to save the island's children have gone unrecorded for many centuries

ruining families and breaking hearts

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Blinding Author Surname:Cartarescu Auster's spin on the detectiveBeneath the streets of communist Bucharest linger hidden passageways, lost to memory. Here, sprawling hospitals give way to travelling circuses and underground jazz clubs, and Cartarescu's 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 Cartarescu's 'Blinding' is one of the most widely heralded literary