Blinding Author Surname:Cartarescu the creeps

the creeps

June isn't content to just whisper in Sid's ear

A breakneck race around the world begins

The loveable full-time priest and part-time detective

Auster's spin on the detective story has been given a unique and unexpected new life

Blinding Author Surname:Cartarescu the creepsBeneath the streets of communist Bucharest linger hidden passageways, lost to memory. Here, sprawling hospitals give way to travelling circuses and underground jazz clubs, and Cartarescu's childhood, prehistory and visionary fever dreams are woven into the landscape of the city, haunted by secret police and zombie hoards. Part visceral dream memoir, part phantasmic pilgrimage, Mircea Cartarescu's 'Blinding' is one of the most widely heralded literary