'Visionary... almost as if David Lynch had dramatised the prophetic books of William Blake'
Boyd Tonkin Financial Times ' This is writing of overwhelming accomplishment' Chris Power
Observer An enthralling hallucinatory masterwork by one of Central Europe's most
celebrated novelists 'We exist between the past and future like the vermiform body of a
butterfly in between its two wings' Beneath the streets of communist Bucharest linger hidden
passageways lost to memory. Here sprawling hospitals give way to travelling circuses and
underground jazz clubs and Cartarescu's childhood prehistory and visionary fever dreams are
woven into the landscape of the city haunted by secret police and zombie hoards. Part
visceral dream-memoir part phantasmic pilgrimage Mircea Cartarescu's Blinding is one of the
most widely heralded literary sensations in contemporary Romania and a fascinating
kaleidoscopic journey into the past.
