Manea Norman Manea & Camiller Patrick Camiller 
Black Envelope [EPUB ebook] 

A splendid, violent spring suddenly grips Bucharest in the 1980s after a brutal winter. Tolea, an eccentric middle-aged intellectual who has been dismissed from his job as a high school teacher on "moral grounds, " is investigating his father’s death forty years after the fact, and is drawn into a web of suspicion and black humor."Reading ‚The Black Envelope, ‚ one might think of the poisonous ‚black milk‘ of Celan’s ‚Death Fugue‘ or the claustrophobic air of mounting terror in Mr. Appelfeld’s ‚Badenheim 1939.‘ . . . Mr. Manea offers striking images and insights into the recent experience of Eastern Europe."—New York Times Book Review