The Black Envelope

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.

• Author
• Norman Manea, Patrick Camiller

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 329

• Publisher
• Northwestern University Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780810113770

• Genres
• fiction, romania

• Release date
• 1996