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Burying the Typewriter Carmen Bugan

Burying the Typewriter von Carmen Bugan

Burying the Typewriter Carmen Bugan

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Zusammenfassung

`This story starts roughly in the 1970s, a few years after I was born, about the time when I began to have memories and my father's codename was already long established as "Andronic", a name we learned about only last summer . . .'

Burying the Typewriter Zusammenfassung

Burying the Typewriter: Childhood Under the Eye of the Secret Police Carmen Bugan

One quiet day when her mother was away from home, Carmen Bugan's father put on his best suit and drove into Bucharest to stage a one-man protest against Ceausescu. He had been typing pamphlets on an illegal typewriter and burying it in the garden each morning under his daughter's bedroom window.

This is the story of what happened to Carmen and her family, isolated and under surveillance in their beloved village home.

It is an intimate piece of our recent history, the testimony of an extraordinary childhood left abruptly behind.

Above all, it is a luminous, compassionate, and unflinchingly honest book about the price of courage, the pain of exile, and the power of memory.

Burying the Typewriter Bewertungen

"In "Burying the Typewriter", Carmen Bugan delivers neither a memoir of blame nor a hagiography. What she has drawn, within the story of her own childhood, is a complex portrait of an exasperating father, a man who happens to be a hero in the eyes of Amnesty International and the Western World, a hero in the service of a just cause. But, while he may be the driving force behind her story . . . it is her world that is revealed here, a world she was forced to leave behind and that she looks back on now with sorrow, pride, longing and rage."--Lynn Freed, Bakeless Prize judge

Über Carmen Bugan

Carmen Bugan was born in 1970 in Romania and has since lived in the US, Ireland, England, and France. She is the author of three collections of poems: Crossing the Carpathians (Oxford Poets/Carcanet), The House of Straw (Shearsman), and Releasing the Porcelain Birds (Shearsman); as well as the memoir Burying the Typewriter and the critical study Seamus Heaney and East European Poetry in Translation: Poetics of Exile. Her bilingual edition of poetry and selected prose was published with Edizioni Kolibris in Italy, and it is called On the Side of Forgetting/ Sulla Soglia Della Dimenticanza. Carmen was educated at the University of Michigan and Oxford University, UK, where she obtained a doctorate in English literature. Her essays, reviews, and poems appear in publications such as PEN, the TLS, Modern Poetry in Translation, PN Review, Harvard Review, and the BBC Magazine. In 2017 Carmen was made a George Orwell Prize Fellow. She teaches at the Gotham Writers Workshop in NYC and lives in Long Island, NY.

Zusätzliche Informationen

GOR004145801
9781447210832
1447210832
Burying the Typewriter: Childhood Under the Eye of the Secret Police Carmen Bugan
Carmen Bugan
Gebraucht - Sehr Gut
Gebundene Ausgabe
Pan Macmillan
2012-06-07
272
Short-listed for The Orwell Prize 2013 (UK)
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