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Wasted Morning
Gabriela Adamesteanu
其他書名
A Novel
出版
Northwestern University Press
, 2011-05-04
主題
Fiction / General
Fiction / Historical / General
ISBN
0810126370
9780810126374
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=rudG-bP_Fp0C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Upon its original publication in 1983,
Wasted Morning
catapulted Gabriela Adamesteanu 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 Adamesteanu 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.