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The deprivations that politicians imposed on the Romanian public for the sake of an ambivalent switch to the market economy and delusive future welfare took a serious toll on the country. The lead character, a researcher, found himself caught between two ostensibly different worlds that hardly differed in reality, insofar as they were products of the same clique of politicians that only paid lip service to Eastern Europe's political U-turn of the 1990s. Persecuted under the Communist regime, the character has trouble adjusting to the mock capitalism that follows. His is a self- denying struggle for preserving the fundamental values of humankind embodied by the endangered library-that of his own research institute and its symbolic counterpart, Assurbanipal's famous library in Nineveh. 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Als w re Ich ein St ck vom Universum - k nnte die Weltgeschichte beeinflussen, k nnte Dinge sehen und f hlen und bewegen, von denen ich niemals dachte, dass es mir m glich sei - es ist m glich  Doch, unter anderem, hat sich mein Traum vom Fliegen realisiert - ich darf mich Sportpilotin nennen - m chte allen, die dieses Vergn gen erst noch entdecken wollen aber auch denen, die schon Spa  am Fliegen haben - eine hinrei ende, aber auch am sante - Meine - Geschichte dazu erz hlen. 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Sus historias son una celebración de su fuerza, su espíritu indomable y su capacidad de enfrentar cualquier desafío que se les presente.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEn el corazón de cada página de este libro late una poderosa narrativa de resiliencia, esperanza y determinación. A través de sus relatos, descubrimos la complejidad de la experiencia migratoria y la riqueza cultural que estas mujeres llevan consigo a medida que cruzan fronteras y se enfrentan a la adversidad.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePero, a pesar de todas las dificultades, estas mujeres se niegan a ser definidas por sus circunstancias. En cambio, encuentran la fortaleza para reconstruir sus vidas, abrazar su identidad cultural y luchar por un futuro mejor para ellas mismas y sus familias.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLas historias concuerdan, desafortunadamente, en esta innegable marca de violencia física, emocional y hasta económica de la que cada mujer tiene una historia que contar. 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