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The Black Envelope

3.5/5 ( ratings)

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.

Language: English

Pages: 329

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Northwestern University Press

Release: June 17, 1996

ISBN: 0810113775

ISBN 13: 9780810113770

The Black Envelope

3.5/5 ( ratings)

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.

Language: English

Pages: 329

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Northwestern University Press

Release: June 17, 1996

ISBN: 0810113775

ISBN 13: 9780810113770

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