{"product_id":"the-hooligans-return-a-memoir","title":"Hooligan's Return","description":"\u003cb\u003eRomanian exile Norman Manea’s internationally acclaimed memoir\/novel, now available to English-language readers\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“A fascinating, beguiling record of the almost incredible events that can transpire in one life, especially if that life is lived in twentieth-century Eastern Europe. \u003ci\u003eThe Hooligan’s Return\u003c\/i\u003e operates on so many levels that finally it eludes all classifications and reveals itself as art.”—Francine Prose\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e At the center of \u003ci\u003eThe Hooligan’s Return\u003c\/i\u003e is the author himself, always an outcast, on a bleak lifelong journey through Nazism and communism to exile in America. But while Norman Manea’s book is in many ways a memoir, it is also a deeply imaginative work, traversing time and place, life and literature, dream and reality, past and present. Autobiographical events merge with historic elements, always connecting the individual with the collective destiny. Manea speaks of the bloodiest time of the twentieth century and of the emergence afterward of a global, competitive, and sometimes cynical modern society.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Both a harrowing memoir and an ambitious epic project, \u003ci\u003eThe Hooligan’s Return\u003c\/i\u003e achieves a subtle internal harmony as anxiety evolves into a delicate irony and a burlesque fantasy. Beautifully written and brilliantly conceived, this is the work of a writer with an acute understanding of the vast human potential for both evil and kindness, obedience and integrity.","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32103269728339,"sku":"","price":58.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780300197808_c6d7c510-34dc-4cd5-a605-ee00bf723ec0.jpg?v=1771475429","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/the-hooligans-return-a-memoir","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}