A conversation about The Trenchcoat, with the author, Norman Manea
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“happy to stay with you until tomorrow morning but for only one question more”, still the hesitant totalitarian citizen playing both sides afraid of getting turned in wrongly by friends and suffering as if he had picked a side. Do students recognize how close the west is to this?