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World Fiction - Romania -

Related category: Fiction
Related booklists: World Fiction - Europe, Romania,

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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 6 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book The Censor
    The Censor's Notebook - by Liliana Corobca, translated by Monica Cure

    £14.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781838415938 | ISBN 10: 1838415939

    A fascinating narrative of life in communist Romania, and a thought-provoking meditation on the nature of literature and censorship.  The Censor’s Notebook opens with an exchange of letters between “Liliana Corobca” and Emilia Codrescu, ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Book of Perilous Dishes by Doina Rusti
    The Book of Perilous Dishes - by Doina Rusti

    £11.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781911107446 | ISBN 10: 1911107445

    1798: A magical, dark adventure.   Fourteen-year-old Pâtca, initiated in the occult arts, comes to Bucharest, to her uncle, Cuviosu Zăval, to retrieve the Book of Perilous Dishes.   The recipes in this magical book can bring about d ... more

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  • Cover image of book Bottled Goods by Sophie van Llewyn
    Bottled Goods - by Sophie van Llewyn

    £7.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781912054305 | ISBN 10: 1912054302

    Longlisted for The People’s Book Prize.   Alina’s life was on the right track, until the secret service knocked on her door.   When Alina’s brother-in-law defects to the West, she and her husband become persons of interest ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Fox Was Ever the Hunter by Herta Müller
    The Fox Was Ever the Hunter - by Herta Müller

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781846274770 | ISBN 10: 184627477x

    Romania, the last months of the dictator's regime. Adina is a young schoolteacher. Paul is a musician. Clara, Adina's friend, works in a wire factory. Pavel is Clara's lover. But one of them works for the secret police and is reporting on the group. ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Appointment by Herta Muller
    The Appointment - by Herta Muller

    £7.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781846273766 | ISBN 10: 1846273765

    Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. 'I've been summoned, Thursday, ten sharp.' So begins one day in the life of a young clothing-factory worker during Ceausescu's totalitarian regime. She has been questioned before, but this time she k ... more

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  • Cover image of book Brodeck
    Brodeck's Report - by Philippe Claudel, translated by John Cullen

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781906694685 | ISBN 10: 1906694680

    From his village in post-war France, Brodeck makes his solitary journeys into the mountains to collect data on the natural environment. Day by day he also reconstructs his own life, all but lost in the years he spent in a camp during the war. No-one ... more

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