Train to Trieste - Couverture souple

Radulescu, Dominica

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 055277474X ISBN 13 : 9780552774741

Editeur : Black Swan, 2009

Synopsis

It is 1977 and seventeen-year-old Mona Manoliu has fallen in love with Mihai, a mysterious boy who lives in the romantic mountain city where she spends her summers. She can think of nothing and no one else. But life under Ceausescu's Romania is difficult. Hunger, paranoia and fear infect everyone. One day Mona sees Mihai wearing the black leather jacket favoured by the secret police. Is it possible he is one of them? As food shortages worsen and more of her loved ones disappear, Mona comes to understand that she must leave Romania. She escapes in secret - narrowly avoiding the police - through Yugoslavia to Italy, and finally to Chicago. But she leaves without saying a final goodbye to Mihai. And though she struggles to bury her longing for the past, many years later she finds herself compelled to return, determined to learn the truth.

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À propos de l'auteur

Domnica Radulescu won Romania's National Prize for Short Story Writing when she was just 17 but fled the country soon after to escape the Communist dictatorship of Nicolae Ceausescu. She is now a Full Professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Chair of the Women's Studies Program at Washington and Lee University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Black Swan
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 055277474X
• ISBN 13: 9780552774741
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 400
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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