Compulsory Happiness

In cool, precise prose, and with an unerring sense of the absurd, the four novellas of Compulsory Happiness create a picture of everyday life in a grotesque police state, expressing terror and hope, fear and solidarity, the humorous triviality of the ordinary, and the painful search for an ideal."e;Norman Manea's four novellas, written during the later Ceausescu years, offer a comparable contrast ...