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Compulsory Happiness

In cool, precise prose, and with an unerring sense of the absurd, Norman Manea's four novellas create a picture of everyday life in a grotesque police state, expressing terror and hope, fear and solidarity, the humorous triviality of the ordinary, and the painful search for an ideal.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 259
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780810111905
  • Genres
  • romania, fiction
  • Release date
  • 1994