Nostalgia

The Romanian writer Mircea Cărtărescu is one of the best-kept secrets in world literature, which is extraordinary given the scale of his ambition and the strangeness of his imagination. Nostalgia is an early work — five interlinked stories soaked in dream logic, childhood memory, and a quality of otherworldliness that resists easy description. If you have not yet discovered him, this is where to start. If you have, you already know why it's here.