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A review by naiapard
Burying the Typewriter: A Memoir by Carmen Bugan
5.0
“One of us must go to the American Embassy and ask for political asylum.”
The memoir encompasses the childhood and teenage years of Carmen Bugan. She grew up in Romania during its Ceausist regime with a dissident father. Because the freedom of expression was pretty much null, her father`s anti-regime manifestations got him imprisoned several times. The family was severely stripped of their liberties too. It was considered that a family was a compact structure, so, if the father was against the regime, so could be family.
She relates how she had people spy on her and her family at all times. She grew up with an absentee father, replaced by the secret police people who would bug their house with microphones and follow them wherever they went.
It`s a sad memoir. I don`t think it inspires you too much, maybe hope? The hope that if you wait and endure through there will be a light at the end of the tunnel?