Used book – The Hooligan's Return: A Life, Norman Manea

The exile lasted ten years. Norman Manea returns to his native Romania, where communism has collapsed, but where nothing has truly changed. Between reality and fiction, memories surface: his mother is dead, communism has collapsed, and the ghosts of the past cloud his vision. What remains is the persistent pain of having fled his true homeland: his mother tongue.

Born in Bukovina in 1936, Norman Manea went into exile in the United States in 1987. Author of a dozen novels, he is the most translated contemporary Romanian writer. The Return of the Hooligan received the Prix Médicis étranger in 2006.

"Unforgettable, awarded the Prix Médicis étranger, this book is already a classic." Lire.

Translated from Romanian by Nicolas Véron