Life in Ceausescu’s Romania in the late 70s seen through the eyes of a young woman suffering her first great love. She comes from an intellectual family continually under the surveillance of the secret police. Her parents fear for the girl’s safety and future and eventually smuggle her out of the country. The fear and suspicion, hunger and hardship of the regime haunt the pages but is her salvation any better? This is a tale of displaced people, of homesickness for a country that won’t accept free thinking, of betrayal, jealousy and deception.
Comparison: Irene Nemirovsky (Suite Francaise), Salley Vickers (The Other Side of You), Catherine Law (Season of Leaves).
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Train to Trieste by Domnica Radulescu
Train to Trieste features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Debut Books of the Month, Book Club Recommendations, Romance / Relationship Stories, eBooks of the Month, General Fiction, Fiction, Recommendations
Train to Trieste is available in Paperback, Ebook
Train to Trieste was written by Domnica Radulescu and published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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