Captives
Fictionby Norman Manea
Translated from Romanian by Jean Harris
Acclaimed writer Norman Manea’s Captives is a kaleidoscopic, imagistic, and stylistically innovative look into the lives of three characters: an alienated piano teacher, an engineer reflecting on his youth, and a veteran who suffers through daily life long after surviving the battles of World War II.
Divided into interrelated sections—narrated in first-, second-, and third- person voices—Captives explores the social and psychological conditions of postwar Romania: a loss of identity, a complicated sense of guilt and trauma from having survived the fascist government during World War II, and the rise of communism.
Paperback(published December 11, 2014)
- ISBN
- 9780811220477
- Price US
- 16.95
- Price CN
- 20.95
- Page Count
- 288