Blinding: The Left Wing

An enthralling, hallucinatory masterwork by one of Central Europe s most celebrated novelists We exist between the past and future like the vermiform body of a butterfly, in between its two wings Beneath the streets of communist Bucharest linger hidden passageways, lost to memory. Here, sprawling hospitals give way to travelling circuses and underground jazz clubs, and Cartarescu s 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 Cartarescu s Blinding is one of the most widely heralded literary sensations in contemporary Romania, and a fascinating, kaleidoscopic journey into the past.