{"product_id":"coming-from-an-off-key-time-bogdan-suceava-9780810126848","title":"Coming from an Off-Key Time","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe fall of communism in Eastern Europe in 1989 marked, in one famous formulation, the \"end of history.\" In his apocalyptic novel \u003ci\u003eComing from an Off-Key Time, \u003c\/i\u003eBogdan Suceavă satirizes the events in his native Romania since the violent end of the Ceauşescu regime that fateful year.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuceavă uses three interrelated narratives to illustrate the destructive power of Romanian society's most powerful mythologies. He depicts madness of all kinds but especially religious beliefs and their perversion by all manner of outrageous sects. Here horror and humor reside impossibly in the same time and place, and readers experience the vertiginous feeling of living in the middle of a violent historical upheaval.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEven as \u003ci\u003eComing from an Off-Key Time \u003c\/i\u003esuggests the influence of such writers as Mikhail Bulgakov, the fantastic satirist of the early Soviet Union, Suceavă engages the complexities of a quickly changing country in search of its bearings and suspicious of its past. Bogdan Suceavă is an associate professor of mathematics at California State University, Fullerton. One of Romanian literature's most promising and original young writers, he is the author of four novels, two books of short stories, and several collections of poems.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlistair Ian Blyth's previous translations include Filip Florian, \u003ci\u003eLittle Fingers \u003c\/i\u003e(2009); Lucian Dan Teodorovici, \u003ci\u003eOur Circus Presents \u003c\/i\u003e(2009); and Catalin Avramescu's \u003ci\u003eAn Intellectual History of Cannibalism \u003c\/i\u003e(2009).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bogdan Suceava\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0810126842\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780810126848\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Northwestern University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/26\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 222\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.61lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.70d","brand":"Bogdan Suceava","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44120285348095,"sku":"9780810126848","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_62c81755-956a-405c-8448-11d25b3c3580.jpg?v=1687413506","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/coming-from-an-off-key-time-bogdan-suceava-9780810126848","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}