Solenoid - Mircea Cartarescu plastering over cracks – the

plastering over cracks – the stories inhabiting them awaken

and from satirical epistolary tales to imaginative historical fiction

The collection features stories by some of Korea's greatest writers

the height of the Belle Epoque

Solenoid - Mircea Cartarescu plastering over cracks – theBased on Cartarescu's own experience as a teacher, Solenoid submerges us in the mundane details of a diarist's life and spirals into an existential account of history, philosophy and mathematics. Grounded in the reality of communist Romania, it grapples with frightening health care, the absurdities of the education system and the struggles of family life, while investigating other universes and forking paths. In a surreal journey like no other, we