Blinding: The Left Wing - Mircea Cartarescu is investigating a ritual murder

is investigating a ritual murder but chances upon something more horrifying even than the bodies in the trees – the last bodies he sees

Ana recalls her childhood for her great-granddaughter

what is knowledge

Translator: Roland Glasser

Blinding: The Left Wing - Mircea Cartarescu is investigating a ritual murderBeneath the streets of communist Bucharest linger hidden passageways, lost to memory. Here, sprawling hospitals give way to travelling circuses and underground jazz clubs, and Cartarescus 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 Cartarescus Blinding is one of the most widely heralded literary