Reading Europe celebrates Romania on 8 June 2016

Reading Europe celebrates Romania on 8 June 2016

READING EUROPE FROM UK INDEPENDENT PUBLISHERS
There are 24 countries in the EU in addition to the 4 countries in the British Isles and Commonwealth. Before the EU Referendum let us take the opportunity to find out something more about fellow members and neighbours. The recommended titles have been selected to let the reader know the literature, history and culture of each country better. On 8 June we celebrate Romania.
 
RECOMMENDED TITLES FROM ROMANIA
Life Begins on Friday by Ioana Parvulescu, translated by Alistair Ian Blyth (Istros)
ISBN 978 1 908236 29 6, 280 pages,£9.99
An historical novel set in Bucharest in the 1890s. A glimpse into the past of this central European country, looking at Bucharest at a time of great social and political change, when the modern world began to impinge on the old order.
 
Diary of a Short-Sighted Adolescent by Mircea Eliade, translated by Christopher Moncrieff (Istros)
ISBN 978 1 908236 21 0, 196 pages,£9.99
A seminal work by the great Romanian writer and historian of religion, this book conjures the loves and frustrations of a group of teenage boys coming of age in pre-war Romania. History, mythology, anti-Semitism and the loneliness of artistic creation are all themes of this semi-autobiographical novel.