Solenoid - Mircea Cartarescu is at once a coming-of-age

is at once a coming-of-age novel

Babi Yar recounts the massacre of Jews and others at the ravine known as Babi Yar

Then Norway is occupied by the Nazis

the height of the Belle Epoque

Solenoid - Mircea Cartarescu is at once a coming-of-ageBased 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