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Tolea, an eccentric middle-aged intellectual who has been dismissed from his job as a high school teacher on moral grounds, is investigating his father's death forty years after the fact, and is drawn into a web of suspicion and black humour.

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“Reading The Black Envelope, one might think of the poisonous ‘black milk’ of Celan’s ‘Death Fugue’ or the claustrophobic air of mounting terror in Mr. Appelfeld’s ‘Badenheim 1939.’ . . . Mr. Manea offers striking images and insights into the recent experience of Eastern Europe.”—New York Times Book Review

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    A Paperback / softback by Norman Manea, Patrick Camiller

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      Publisher: Yale University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 24/04/2012
      ISBN13: 9780300182941, 978-0300182941
      ISBN10: 0300182945

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Tolea, an eccentric middle-aged intellectual who has been dismissed from his job as a high school teacher on moral grounds, is investigating his father's death forty years after the fact, and is drawn into a web of suspicion and black humour.

      Trade Review
      “Reading The Black Envelope, one might think of the poisonous ‘black milk’ of Celan’s ‘Death Fugue’ or the claustrophobic air of mounting terror in Mr. Appelfeld’s ‘Badenheim 1939.’ . . . Mr. Manea offers striking images and insights into the recent experience of Eastern Europe.”—New York Times Book Review

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