# Nostalgia

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- Book: [Nostalgia](https://www.bookquiver.com/mircea-cartarescu/nostalgia) ([Nostalgia.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/mircea-cartarescu/nostalgia.md))
- Authors: [Mircea Cărtărescu](https://www.bookquiver.com/mircea-cartarescu)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4199-306-5
- Published: 2021-05-27
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Gripping, impassioned, unexpected' Los Angeles Times A dreamlike novel of memory and magic, Nostalgia turns the dark world of Communist Bucharest into a place of strange enchantments. Here a man plays increasingly death-defying games of Russian Roulette, a child messiah works his magic in the tenements, a young man explores gender boundaries, a woman relives her youth and an architect becomes obsessed with the sound of his new car horn - with unexpected consequences. Blending reality and symbolism, time and myth, this is a cult masterwork from Romania's most celebrated writer.