About this Book Award-winning author with an international profile- Cartarescu is a major European literary voice. He participated in the 2011 PEN World Voices Festival and has won the Romanian Writers' Union Prize, Romanian Academy's Prize, ASPRO Prize, Vilenica Prize; and was nominated for the Prix Medicis Connected and energetic translator. Sean Cotter's essays, articles, and translations have appeared, among other placed in Conjunctions, Two Lines, The Comparatist, Translation Review, 22, and Romania literara, and he has lived in Romania as both a Fulbright-Hays scholar and a Peace Corps volunteer. He is a great promoter of his work and will promote it at speaking engagements and academic conferences. Package. All Archipelago Books are printed on high quality, acid-free paper, feature signature sewn binding, and each is uniquely designed with eye-catching art More praise- Mircea Cartarescu is a writer who has always had a place reserved for him in a constellation that includes the Brothers Grimm, Franz Kafka, Jorge Luis Borges, Bruno Schulz, Julio Cortazar, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Milan Kundera, and Milorad Pavic, to mention just a few. --Andrei Codr