mit Gabriela Adamegteanus "Wasted Morning"
The Network of European Union National Institutes for Culture (EUNIC) and the Ottawa Public Library are pleased to present our January session.
We will be discussing the book:
Wasted Morning
by Gabriela Adamegteanu (2011)
Upon its original publication in 1983, "Wasted Morning"catapulted Gabriela Adamegteanu
to the first rank of Romanian novelists. She has since been translated into many languages, and now her most famous novel is available in English for the first time. At the center of "Wasted Morning" is Vica Delca, a simple, poor woman in her seventies who has endured the endless series of trials and tribulations that was Romanian history from WWI to the end of the twentieth century.
She's a born storyteller, chatting and gossiping tirelessly. But she also listens, so it is through her that Adamegteanu is able to show us a panoramic portrait of Romanian society as the fortunes of its various strata shift violently. Rich or poor, honest (more or less) or deceitful, all of the characters in this polyphonic novel are brought vividly to life. From Bucharest's aspirations to be the Paris of Eastern Europe to the darkest days of dictatorship, the novel presents a sweeping vision of the personal and collective costs of a turbulent century."
(from the Ottawa Public Library website)
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