Solenoid - Mircea Cartarescu weaving the tale of her

weaving the tale of her mother and grandmother through a history of intrigue

finds it impossible to watch the slow and inevitable demise of his lover

is at once a coming-of-age novel

Then Norway is occupied by the Nazis

plastering over cracks – the stories inhabiting them awaken

Solenoid - Mircea Cartarescu weaving the tale of herBased on Cartarescu'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