p b Cartarescu is one of the great literary voices of Central Europe Olga Tokarczuk, Nobel Prize winner and author of i Flights /i /b br / br / b A Danubian Narnia. . . his writing delivers a rainbow-hued riot of fantasy, imagination and invention Boyd Tonkin, i Spectator /i /b br / br / A dreamlike novel of memory and magic, i Nostalgia /i turns the dark world of Communist Bucharest into a place of strange enchantments. Here a man plays increasingly death-defying games of Russian Roulette, a child messiah works his magic in the tenements, a young man explores gender boundaries, a woman relives her youth and an architect becomes obsessed with the sound of his new car horn - with unexpected consequences. br / br / Blending reality and symbolism, time and myth, this is a cult masterwork from Romania s most celebrated writer. /p
