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Train to Trieste
Domnica Radulescu
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Description for Train to Trieste
Paperback. 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. One day Mona sees Mihai wearing the black leather jacket favoured by the secret police. Is it possible he is one of them? Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 24. Weight in Grams: 280. Well-read paperback in good condition. Some shelf wear.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Black Swan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780552774741
SKU
KRF0022060
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Domnica Radulescu
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.
Reviews for Train to Trieste
"A coming of age story, a struggle for political integrity and female identity, a wonderful love story - the book engages us on many levels."
Bernhard Schlink, author of THE READER and HOMECOMING. "I was swept away by Domnica Radulescu's debut novel. It's at once a haunting journey to a faraway country, beautiful and terrifying, and an odyssey straight ... Read more
Bernhard Schlink, author of THE READER and HOMECOMING. "I was swept away by Domnica Radulescu's debut novel. It's at once a haunting journey to a faraway country, beautiful and terrifying, and an odyssey straight ... Read more