Captives
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Captives, the acclaimed writer Norman Manea's first novel, is a fascinating, kaleidoscopic, and imaginative look into postwar Romania. Divided into three sections-narrated in first-, second-, and third-person voices-Captives explores the lives of several defeated characters as they become almost too much to bear under the weight of endless humiliations: loss of identity, trauma of having survived the Second World War, and submission to the totalitarian state.
This is a moving account of a country shaken by communism and anti-Semitism and haunted by recent atrocities, from a distinguished writer whose vision of totalitarianism is close to Kafka's cloudy menace, universal yet internalized (Richard Eder, The New York Times).
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0811220478
ISBN13:9780811220477
Release Date:December 2014
Publisher:New Directions Publishing Corporation
Length:288 Pages
Weight:0.65 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 5.3" x 7.9"
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