num_pages: 329
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Black Envelope
titlecomplete: The Black Envelope
genres: Fiction, Romania, Romanian Literature
ratings_count: 75
publisher: Northwestern University Press