Memoir books set in Romania (6)


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1.

Night by Elie Wiesel EN

Rating: 5 (15 votes)
Country: Europe / Romania flag Romania
Description:
Presents a true account of the author's experiences as a Jewish boy in a Nazi concentration camp.


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Under a Red Sky : Memoir of a Childhood in Communist Romania by Haya Leah Molnar EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Romania flag Romania
Description:
The author shares her early memories of being a Jewish child living in postwar Bucharest, Romania, and the eccentric and opinionated adults who surrounded her and who would do anything to keep her safe while living in this communist country.

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Burying the Typewriter : A Memoir by Carmen Bugan EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Romania flag Romania
Description:
Winner of the Bakeless Prize for Nonfiction, a childhood memoir of political oppression and persecution during Romania's Ceausescu years Carmen Bugan grew up amid the bounty of the Romanian countryside on her grandparent's farm where food and laughter were plentiful. But eventually her father's behavior was too disturbing to ignore. He wept when listening to Radio Free Europe, hid pamphlets in sacks of dried beans, and mysteriously buried and reburied a typewriter. When she discovered he was a political dissident she became anxious for him to conform. However, with her mother in the hospital a... continue


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Night by Elie Weisel EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Romania flag Romania
Description:
A new translation from the French by Marion Wiesel. Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author's original intent. And in a substantive new preface, Elie reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication to ensuring that the world never forgets man's capacity for inhumanity to man. Night offers much... continue