Blinding: The Left Wing (Penguin International Writers)

This is writing of overwhelming accomplishment... Reading Blinding is like sinking into the humus of a mind, a vast, tangled network of memory and fantasy -- Chris Power ― Observer

Vivid, sumptuous... a rich, disturbing exploration of our sense of time ― TLS

Mircea Cartarescu’s writing is dreamlike in the truest sense... It is an effluence – prose at times decadently grim and at others shimmering and ethereal – that this reader, like a dog, couldn't help but lap up ― ArtReview

Cartarescu is one of the great literary voices of Central Europe. He daringly questions our usual way of looking at the world, suggesting that rationalism is merely an attempt to create order. In fact, the world is made up of the nuances of our fantasies -- Olga Tokarczuk

Cartarescu is no longer writing novels. He is officiating a cult ― TLS

One of the greatest literary adventurers in contemporary literature ― El Pais

Gripping, impassioned, unexpected--the qualities that the best in literature possesses ― Los Angeles Times Book Review

In this wise, stunning novel, everything is divided: the narrator; the history through which that narrator lives; the very city of Bucharest. Unlike many authors who play at the edges of what makes fiction fictive or what can be said to constitute reality, Cartarescu manages to keep his profundity engaging, his irony humorous, his wit acid but not cruel -- Andrew Solomon

Fluidly translated by Sean Cotter… the book has a cinematic quality that we don’t so much read as drift through ― as in an amusement park ride. What fantastic notion, or iteration of metamorphosing insect will pop out and regale us next? If you’re game for a mystical mind-bend, give Blinding a go ― The Los Angeles Review