The Hooligan's Return: A Memoir - Hardcover

Manea, Norman

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0374282560 ISBN 13: 9780374282561

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2003

Synopsis

The personal story of the famous Romanian author recreates his harrowing childhood under Ceausescu's dictatorship and the pre- and post-Communist eras, incarceration in a Jewish relocation camp during the second World War, relationships with his friends and family, and struggles with moral and aesthetic questions.

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Review:

"An extraordinary book"--Larissa MacFarquhar, "The New Yorker"--Larissa MacFarquhar "The New Yorker "

"A genuinely great book, an entire teeming life seized and made permanent."--Robert Boyers, "The New Republic"--Robert Boyers "The New Republic "

"Norman Manea's "The Hooligan's Return", translated by Angela Jianu, is the first British edition of this superb memoir by one of Romania's greatest writers, now living in the US. Manea manages to be down-to-earth and at the same time magical in summoning up the surreal realities of life under the fascists, first, and then the unspeakable Ceausesucs."--John Banville, "The New Statesman"--John Banville"The New Statesman" (11/22/2013)

"Norman Manea's "The Hooligan's Return," translated by Angela Jianu, is the first British edition of this superb memoir by one of Romania's greatest writers, now living in the US. Manea manages to be down-to-earth and at the same time magical in summoning up the surreal realities of life under the fascists, first, and then the unspeakable Ceausesucs."--John Banville, "The New Statesman"--John Banville"The New Statesman" (11/22/2013)

"An extraordinary book Larissa MacFarquhar, "The New Yorker"--Larissa MacFarquhar "The New Yorker ""

"A genuinelygreat book, an entire teeming life seized and made permanent." Robert Boyers, "The New Republic"--Robert Boyers "The New Republic ""

The 'sad country, full of humour' that was, and still is, Romania has had no finer and percipient chronicler of its sorrows and absurdities. . . . He is one of an immensely humane and intelligent stature. Paul Bailey, "Times Literary Supplement"
--Paul Bailey"Times Literary Supplement" (03/05/2004)"

It is that kaleidoscopic excursioninto recent and remote yesterdays that forms the bulk of "The Hooligan's Return," peopled with many touching moments and characters. All is recounted with the caustic dexterity and lyrical power we would expect from the accomplished novelist who gave us "Compulsory Happiness" and "The Black Envelope."" Ariel Dorfman, "The New York Times Book Review"--Ariel Dorfman"The New York Times Book Review" (09/21/2003)"

A distinguished writer whose vision of totalitarianism is closer to Kafka s cloudy menace, universal, and yet internalized, thanto Orwell's brass tacks . . . the artistry of the implication, the intensity of what can seem a dream state, draws us imperceptibly through a half-lighted window for lack of the door." Richard Eder, "The New York Times"--Richard Eder"The New York Times" (09/21/2003)"

This world of ours, in his view, is a place where the ridiculous reigns supreme over all human life and tortures everyone without respite, and therefore it cannot be ignored because it's not about to ignore any of us. . . . He has in mind all those, including himself, who were left to pay the fool in one of history's many traveling circuses. Charles Simic, "The New York Review of Books"--Charles Simic"The New York Review of Books" (10/23/2003)"

About the Author:

Norman Manea is the author of eight novels, most recently Black Envelope (FSG, 1995). He has received Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellowship Awards. He teaches at Bard College, New York, and lives with his wife in New York City.

About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0374282560
• ISBN 13: 9780374282561
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 385