{"product_id":"the-hooligans-return-9780300197808","title":"The Hooligans Return","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRomanian exile Norman Manea's internationally acclaimed memoir\/novel, now available to English-language readers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An extraordinary book.”—Larissa MacFarquhar, \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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, \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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, \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A distinguished writer whose vision of totalitarianism is closer to Kafka’s cloudy menace, universal, and yet internalized, than to 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, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“It is that kaleidoscopic excursion into recent and remote yesterdays that forms the bulk of \u003ci\u003eThe Hooligan’s Return\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eCompulsory Happiness\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Black Envelope\u003c\/i\u003e.”—Ariel Dorfman, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Norman Manea’s \u003ci\u003eThe Hooligan’s Return\u003c\/i\u003e, 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, \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAwarded Prix Médicis Etranger 2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I am profoundly grateful for this living, flesh-and-blood, yet unearthly memoir.”—Cynthia Ozick\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52151087661399,"sku":"9780300197808","price":44.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780300197808.jpg?v=1762960091","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-hooligans-return-9780300197808","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}