Solenoid

"In Ireland, the Dublin Literary Award—worth €100,000—was won by the Romanian author Mircea Cărtărescu for his surrealist novel Solenoid , in which the fiction is interwoven with memoir and philsophical thought experiments . The judges’ statement described it as “wildly inventive, philosophical, and lyrical, with passages of great beauty,” noting that the translation by Sean Cotter captures “the lyrical precision of the original, thereby opening up Cărtărescu’s work to an entirely new readership.”"