The novel was written in December 1938 - January 1939 in Paris. Published in 1941 by the American publishing house New Directions, then reprinted several tim...

Romania, 1920s. In a provincial town, where it is customary for passers-by to greet everyone they meet, and residents attach exaggerated importance to what t...

In the tradition of Sándor Márai, Mihail Sebastian is a captivating Central European storyteller from the first half of the twentieth century whose work i...

'Absolutely, definitively alone', a young Jewish student in Romania tries to make sense of a world that has decided he doesn't belong. Spending his days w...

Hailed as one of the most important portrayals of the dark years of Nazism, this powerful chronicle by the Romanian Jewish writer Mihail Sebastian aroused...