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The Lair

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Description for The Lair paperback. Set in New York City in the months preceding 9/11, this novel introduces us to the protagonist who, like the author himself, is a Romanian professor in exile and who struggles with loneliness, dislocation, the desire to hide. Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 189 x 126 x 22. Weight in Grams: 338.

Now available for the first time in English, Manea's acclaimed novel of émigrés in America, free yet imprisoned by the past

Norman Manea, Romania's most famous contemporary author, twice has survived the grip of totalitarian regimes. No stranger to exile, he mines its complexities and disorientations in this extraordinarily compelling novel, The Lair. Exile in the motherland and away from it is the shared plight of his protagonists. Nowhere at home, they move through their lives in a continuous, ever-elusive quest for national and individual identity. Manea's characters seek a place and a voice in America, only to ... Read more

Manea's themes and narrative approach are intricate: his style fluctuates in correspondence with the instability of his characters' lives, his story is encased within an elaborate network of allusions and paradoxes. Yet in the midst of the novel's overriding disorientation, the author establishes intersections and uncovers the universal. Through the predicaments of his perpetual outsiders, he offers a poignant assessment of the conflicts of the individual in the age of globalization. He writes with unmatched intensity and a unique sensitivity to the human tragicomedy.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Yale University Press
Condition
New
Series
The Margellos World Republic of Letters
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300198799
SKU
9780300198799
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About Norman Manea
Norman Manea is Francis Flournoy Professor of European Culture and writer-in-residence at Bard College. Deported from his native Romania to a Ukrainian concentration camp during World War Two, he was again forced to leave Romania in 1986, no longer safe under an intolerant Communist dictatorship. Since arriving in the West he has received many important awards, including, in 2016, Romania’s ... Read more

Reviews for The Lair
“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 ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for The Lair


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