Solenoid
eBook - ePub

Solenoid

Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2025

  1. 640 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Solenoid

Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2025

About this book

LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2025

WINNER OF THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD AND THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR FICTION

'An instant classic' New York Times

Based on C?rt?rescu's own experience as a teacher, Solenoid submerges us in the mundane details of a diarist's life and spirals into an existential account of history, philosophy and mathematics. Grounded in the reality of communist Romania, it grapples with frightening health care, the absurdities of the education system and the struggles of family life, while investigating other universes and forking paths.

In a surreal journey like no other, we visit a tuberculosis preventorium, an anti-death protest movement, a society of dream investigators and a minuscule world of dust mites living on a microscope slide. Combining fiction with autobiography and history, Solenoid searches for escape routes through the alternate dimensions of life and art, as various monstrous realities erupt within the present.

PRAISE FOR SOLENOID

'C?rt?rescu is no longer writing novels. He is officiating a cult' TLS

'A bravura performance' The Nation

'Surreal and viscerally political' FT

'Nothing short of remarkable' Los Angeles Review of Books

'A masterpiece' Astra Magazine

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Information

Publisher
Pushkin Press
Year
2024
Print ISBN
9781805333197
eBook ISBN
9781805333203
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literature General
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Praise
  2. Title Page
  3. Epigraph
  4. Contents
  5. PART ONE
  6. PART TWO
  7. PART THREE
  8. PART FOUR
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. About the Authors
  11. Available and Coming Soon from Pushkin Press
  12. Copyright

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