Nostalgia

After finishing John Saul's "In the Dark of the Night", which for me has been an easy summer read I decided to stroll into one of Provincetown's libraries to get something more in-depth. After about an hour of flipping through numerous novels and non-ficition releases, I stumbled upon Mircea Cartarescu's Nostalgia.
Caratrescu is a prolific Romanian author, one of his latest books "De ce iubim femeile" (Why we love women) being a bestseller for three years in a row in the eastern European country.
This book, written only a couple of years after the Romanian revolution tells more than one story. It tends to be a non-fiction "fictionalized" novel, a style that isn't very often seen in American authors. The book is not only spellbinding but it is "unputdownable".
It is not characters or plot the keep the book together but a harmonic binding of dreams, games, inner feelings and fantasies.
Cartarescu mentions several times throughout "Nostalgia" that he does not write this for anyone else but himself. However, for any reader with a little experience, this book is absolutely amazing, even though you need a thesaurus next to you to be able to understand every single word.
I was recently talking to a published author here in Provincetown about recipes that work in non-fiction. What I have noticed is that Cartarescu does not use any of the ingredients that I have been taught in this book. So, this book will never appeal to the masses, but will definitely appeal to the intellectuals and to the dreamers, to the philosophers and ultimately writers.
I strongly recommend the book, you can find it on amazon.com here.