Lit in Translation

Ion Manolescu

Born 1968 · Romania

In English
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Books on prize lists

  • No English yet

    Observator cultural 2026 · Shortlist

    Ceilalți

    Title translated by AI:“The Others”

    Ion Manolescu · 57 when first published

    Novel · 880 pages · Speculative, Love

    AI-generated summary:In a Bucharest that is not quite Bucharest, nothing is what it seems, least of all Alexandru Robe: neurologist, psychologist, teacher, doctor or impostor, with a handful of friends and women who may not love him as much as we are told.

  • No English yet

    Observator cultural 2007 · Shortlist

    Derapaj

    Title translated by AI:“Skid”

    Ion Manolescu · 38 when first published

    Novel · 655 pages · Speculative, Crime

    AI-generated summary:A literature lecturer in Bucharest, who spends his nights studying air disasters and hacking into his neighbours’ computers, discovers that for years someone has been tampering with his memories in order to sell them on the black market.