Our team is dedicated to introducing you to authors and publishers from the four corners of Europe and beyond, with a predilection for contemporary fiction. Combining fiction with autobiography and history- the scientists Nicolae Tesla and George Boole, for example, appear alongside the Voynich manuscript-Solenoid ruminates on the exchanges possible between the alternate dimensions of life and art, as various, monstrous dimensions erupt within the Communist present.Librebook counts with more than 8000 books in more than 30 European languages : German, English, Albanian, Arabic, Basque, Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Danish, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Icelandic, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Maltese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Czech, Turkish and Ukrainian. The text includes sequences in a tuberculosis sanatorium, an encounter with an anti-death protest movement, a society of dream investigators, and an extended visit to the miniscule world of dust mites living on a microscope slide. The novel is grounded in the reality of late 1970s/early 1980s Communist Romania, including long lines for groceries, the absurdities of the education system, and the misery of family life. One character asks another: when you rush into the burning building, will you save the newborn or the artwork? On a broad scale, the novel's investigations of other universes, dimensions, and timelines reconcile the realms of life and art. Based on Cartarescu's own role as a high school teacher, Solenoid begins with the mundane details of a diarist's life and quickly spirals into a philosophical account of life, history, philosophy, and mathematics. A highly-acclaimed master work of fiction from Cartarescu, author of Blinding. An existence (and eventually a cosmos) created by forking paths.
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