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hanntastic's review
3.0
Global Read 176 Romania
These novellas were chilling and disturbing and did a great job of plunking the reader down right in Ceaușescu's Romania. The first one was by far my favorite and reminded me of Herta Muller. The second one played with tense and perspective so much that it was distracting. The last two were good as well. It's interesting that the novellas were translated into French and then from French to English. I'm sure that the double translation caused them to lose something along the way and I'd love for there to be another version that was translated from Romanian.
These novellas were chilling and disturbing and did a great job of plunking the reader down right in Ceaușescu's Romania. The first one was by far my favorite and reminded me of Herta Muller. The second one played with tense and perspective so much that it was distracting. The last two were good as well. It's interesting that the novellas were translated into French and then from French to English. I'm sure that the double translation caused them to lose something along the way and I'd love for there to be another version that was translated from Romanian.
bundy23's review
DNF. 24%. I really enjoyed it for about 10 minutes but then it just became tiresome. Apparently it was translated from Romanian to French and then from French to English so maybe that's why the writing feels so generic.
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