{"product_id":"compulsory-happiness-pb-z16","title":"Norman Manea: COMPULSORY HAPPINESS -Z16 [2012] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn cool, precise prose, and with an unerring sense of the absurd, the four novellas of \u003ci\u003eCompulsory Happiness\u003c\/i\u003e create a picture of everyday life in a grotesque police state, expressing terror and hope, fear and solidarity, the humorous triviality of the ordinary, and the painful search for an ideal.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Norman Manea's four novellas, written during the later Ceausescu years, offer a comparable contrast to other Eastern European dissident writing. Instead of the energetic irony, the ebullient absurdism, the sharp-eyed wit, we find a dreamy disconnection, a voice that shock has lowered, an air of sweetness driven mad.\"-Richard Eder, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Mr. Manea's voice is radically new, and we are blessedly awakened and alerted by the demand his fiction makes on our understanding.\"-Lore Segal, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manea, Norman \u0026 Coverdale, Linda","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":42031709814969,"sku":"9780300182958","price":6.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/products\/manea-norman-coverdale-linda-compulsory-happiness-pb-z16-9780300182958-32171853512889.jpg?v=1655889122","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/compulsory-happiness-pb-z16","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}