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The Black Envelope

by Norman Manea · 1995

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A splendid, violent spring suddenly grips Bucharest in the 1980s after a brutal winter. Tolea, an eccentric middle-aged intellectual who has been dismissed from his job as a high school teacher on "moral grounds," is investigating his father's death forty years after the fact, and is drawn into a web of suspicion and black humor.

Setting
1990s1990sMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 329 pages

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