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Compulsory Happiness

Paperback | English

By (author): Norman Manea

Translated by: Linda Coverdale

Compelling tales of terror and paranoia under a repressive regime by the Romanian writer Norman Manea

In cool, precise prose, and with an unerring sense of the absurd, the four novellas of Compulsory Happiness create a picture of everyday life in a grotesque police state, expressing terror and hope, fear and solidarity, the humorous triviality of the ordinary, and the painful search for an ideal. See more
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Product Details
  • Format: Paperback
  • Weight: 295g
  • Dimensions: 127 x 197mm
  • Publication Date: 24 Apr 2012
  • Publisher: Yale University Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780300182958

About Norman Manea

Norman Manea is Francis Flournoy Professor of European Culture and writer-in-residence at Bard College. Deported from his native Romania to a Ukrainian concentration camp during World War Two he was again forced to leave Romania in 1986 no longer safe under an intolerant Communist dictatorship. Since arriving in the West he has received many awards including the Star of Romania awarded by the Romanian president in 2016. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages. He lives in New York City. An award-winning translator Linda Coverdale has translated many classic works of modern French literature into English.

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