num_pages: 448
description: Part visceral dream-memoir, part fictive journey through a hallucinatory Bucharest, Mircea Cărtărescu's BLINDING was one of the most widely heralded literary sensations in contemporary Romania, and a bestseller from the day of its release. Riddled with hidden passageways, mesmerizing tapestries, and whispering butterflies, BLINDING takes us on a mystical trip into the protagonist’s childhood, his memories of hospitalization as a teenager, the prehistory of his family, a traveling circus, secret police, zombie armies, American fighter pilots, the jazz underworld of New Orleans, and the installation of the Communist regime. This kaleidoscopic world is both eerily familiar and profoundly new. Readers of BLINDING will emerge from its strange pilgrimage shaken, and entirely transformed.
language: French
title: Orbitor
titlecomplete: Orbitor
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Magical Realism, Romania, Literature, Novels, Contemporary, Fantasy, Romanian Literature, 20th Century
ratings_count: 1773
series: Orbitor
awards: awardedAt: 1388563200000
name: BTBA Best Translated Book Award
category: Fiction Shortlist
publisher: Gallimard