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Book SynopsisNow available for the first time in English, Manea's acclaimed novel of émigrés in America, free yet imprisoned by the past
Trade Review“An intelligent, erudite, inexhaustible story-teller, in his essays as much as in his fiction, Norman Manea is above all a witness, someone who has lived to tell the tale. In [
The Lair], as in all his work, we find the defining experiences of the twentieth century—the death camps, deportation, totalitarianism (both Fascism and Communism), marginalisation, deracination, exile, self-regeneration—filtered through the sensibility of one of its most astute survivors.”—Costa Bradatan,
Times Literary Supplement A
New York Times Book Review “Editor’s Choice”
“[An] acclaimed novel of love, isolation and the disorientation of being submerged in another culture.”—
GrantaLonglisted by
Three Percent for their 2013 Best Translated Book in Fiction
A
New York Times Book Review “Editor’s Choice” * New York Times *
“Compelling.”—Tess Lewis, Arts Fuse
-- Tess Lewis * Arts Fuse *
“Great imaginative energy. . . . An elaborate, intricate, delicate narrative structure, balanced just so. . . .
The Lair shows us life as a richly incomplete and unresolved experience.”—Reginald Gibbons,
TriQuarterly -- Reginald Gibbons * TriQuarterly *
