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Tuesday, November 03, 2009

I received this message from a Romanian-American reader:
Thank you for writing such a wonderful book about Romania. You wrote it with so much love as if you were Romanian as well.It is hard to believe that you have only spent nine months in the post-communist Romania and you have been able to understand it so clearly and to describe the life before and during the revolution. It was extremely hard for each of us to make sense of the chaotic way in which events took place.

You did understand what is particular about the way we think and feel, and behave. The parallel description of the two love stories were so captivating and I recognize my daughter in Petra in every aspect, from her dorkiness to her unexpected (from an american ) timidity.

The intellectual humor, the verses from Eminescu, the translation of Shakespeare's sonnets, make me feel that I am in the presence of a great writer!

I just hope that I will be able to reach a lot of Romanians and other readers who would appreciate this exceptionally well written book.

Labels: Alan Elsner, novel, review, romance language, Romania

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