"A highly-acclaimed master work of fiction from Mircea Cărtărescu, author of *Blinding*, *Solenoid* is an existence (and eventually a cosmos) created by forking paths. Based on Cărtărescu's own experience as a high school teacher, *Solenoid* begins with the mundane details of a diarist's life and quickly spirals into a philosophical account of life, history, philosophy, and mathematics. The novel is grounded in the reality of Romania in the late 1970s and early 1980s, including frightening health care, the absurdities of the education system, and the misery of family life, while on a broad scale *Solenoid*'s investigations of other universes, dimensions, and timelines attempt to reconcile the realms of life and art. The text includes sequences in a tuberculosis preventorium, encounters with an anti-death protest movement, a society of dream investigators, and an extended visit to the miniscule world of dust mites living on a microscope slide. One character asks another: When you rush into the burning building, will you save the newborn or the artwork?"—Publisher

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