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I'm an old commie!
- Title
- I'm an old commie! / Dan Lungu ; translated from the Romanian by Alistair Ian Blyth.
- Author
- Lungu, Dan, 1969-
- Publication
- Victoria, TX : Dalkey Archive, 2017.
- ©2017
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 17-3233 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Blyth, Alistair Ian
- Description
- 174 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "Emilia, a pensioner in northern Romania, is forced to confront the nostalgic illusions she nurtures as a reaction to the grim post-communist present when her daughter, now living in Canada, telephones urging her not to vote for the former communists in upcoming elections. Determined to discover in her own mind why 'things were better back then, ' she explores her memories of growing up in an impoverished village and of her life as a factory worker in the town. But ironic tension grows as the reader glimpses between the lines how nothing was what it seemed in Ceaușescu's Romania. Interspersed among Emilia's memories are fantastical, hilarious anecdotes about the dictator, told by a factory foreman who will turn out to have been a secret police informer. I'm a Communist Old Biddy! is a subtle and humane novel about self-deception, but also about the ways in which a totalitarian state twisted ordinary lives"--
- Series Statement
- Romanian literature series
- Uniform Title
- Sînt o babă comunistă! English
- Romanian literature series.
- Alternative Title
- Sînt o babă comunistă!
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Psychological fiction.
- Political fiction.
- Note
- "Originally published in Romanian by Editura Polirom as Sînt o babă comunistă! in 2011"--Title page verso.
- Call Number
- JFD 17-3233
- ISBN
- 9781628971484
- 1628971487
- LCCN
- 2016047019
- OCLC
- 973809828
- Author
- Lungu, Dan, 1969- author.
- Title
- I'm an old commie! / Dan Lungu ; translated from the Romanian by Alistair Ian Blyth.
- Publisher
- Victoria, TX : Dalkey Archive, 2017.
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Edition
- First Dalkey Archive edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Romanian literature seriesRomanian literature series.
- Added Author
- Blyth, Alistair Ian, translator.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 17-3233