Magical realism books from Romania
Recommended magical realism books (2)
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If you are into magical realism here are some magical realism books from Romania for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.
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De ce fierbe copilul în mămăligă by Aglaja Veteranyi RO
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"Superbul roman-poem pe care vi-l recomand e pe muchia fluida dintre autobiografie si fictiv, dintre adevarul de viata si fabulatie poetica inspirata. Naratiunea la persoana intii a unei fetite de circari, care se teme ca mama ei va cadea din inaltul cupolei, unde atirna la propriu de niste fire de par, e de fapt o permanenta cautare a identitatii, intr-o lume fara repere si radacini. Romania, din care a plecat la trei ani, reprezinta pentru ea mincarurile specifice, gatite de mama in rulota, si vestile despre rudele ramase in tara lui Ceausescu, silite sa indure mizeria si umilinta cotid... continue
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The Bone Fire by György Dragomán EN
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“A story in which dreams and phantasms are kinder . . . than the random brutality of the concrete world. . . . [the] telling is not just magic, but enchantment.” —Rebecca Makkai, New York Times Book Review Thirteen-year-old Emma grows up under an Eastern European dictatorship where oppression seems eternal. When her dissident parents die in a car accident, she’s taken to an orphanage, only to be adopted soon after by a grandmother she has never met. While her homeland is shattered by a violent revolution, Emma comes to learn the ways of her new grandmother, who can tell fortunes from coffee dr... continue