Panait Istrati: Les Chardons du Baragan (The Thistles of the Baragan)
The latest addition to my website is Panait Istrati's Les Chardons du Baragan (The Thistles of the Baragan). The novel is set in the very inhospitable region of Romania called…
The latest addition to my website is Panait Istrati's Les Chardons du Baragan (The Thistles of the Baragan). The novel is set in the very inhospitable region of Romania called…
The latest addition to my website is Cecilia Stefanescu's Intrarea soarelui (Sun Alley). Emi and Sal are twelve year olds. Neither has a sibling. They meet and fall for one…
The latest addition to my website is Filip Florian's Degete mici (Little Fingers). The basic story involves an archaeological dig of a Roman fort. About 300 feet from the dig,…
The latest addition to my website is Gellu Naum's Zenobia (Zenobia ). Naum was a Surrealist poet and this is very much a Surrealist poet's novel. Our hero is called…
The latest addition to my website is Dumitru Tsepeneag's Pigeon vole (Pigeon Post) . This is a witty and clever post-modernist novel, written in French and set in Paris. An…
The latest addition to my website is Ioana Pârvulescu's Viața începe vineri (Life Begins On Friday). This is an unusual Romanian novel as it is not grim. A coachman in…
The latest addition to my website is Dan Lungu's Raiul găinilor [Heaven for Chickens]. The novel is set in Acadia Street, during the post-Nicolae Ceaușescu era. Most of the people…
The latest addition to my website is Liviu Rebreanu's Pădurea spânzuraților (Forest of the Hanged). Our hero is Apostol Bologa. He is ethnically Romanian - his father had been imprisoned…
The latest addition to my website is Zaharia Stancu's Desculț (Barefoot). We follow Darie, a young peasant boy from the beginning of the 20th century to World War I. However,…
The latest addition to my website is Maria Maïlat's La cuisse de Kafka [Kafka’s Thigh]. This is a semi-autobiographical novel. Her heroine is called Mina Baïlar. She is born in…