Burying the Typewriter Carmen Bugan

Name: Burying the Typewriter By Carmen Bugan
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Burying the Typewriter by Carmen Bugan

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Summary

'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 Summary

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

At 2 a.m. on 10 March 1983, Carmen Bugan's father left the family home, alone. That afternoon, Carmen returned from school to find secret police in her living room. Her father's protest against the regime had changed her life for ever. This is her story.

Burying the Typewriter Reviews

'Startling warmth' Telegraph
'Touched with grace' Independent
'A modern classic' Sunday Times
'Imagine a Romanian Stasiland written by a poet . . . A song of childhood that actually seems to be warm-blooded in your hands' William Fiennes
'One of the most telling insights I've read about life under communism. Warm and humane' Observer
'The Securitate could not take Bugan's memories, her compassionate heart or her clear writer's eye . . . Startling warmth, perception and humanity' Daily Telegraph

About Carmen Bugan

Carmen Bugan is the author of Burying the Typewriter. Her New and Selected poems won a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation. Having fled Romania as a teenager, she was educated at the University of Michigan and Balliol College, Oxford, where she obtained a doctorate in English literature. She lives in Long Island, New York with her husband and two children.

Additional information

Sku

GOR004933593

ISBN 13

9781447210849

ISBN 10

1447210840

Title

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

Author

Carmen Bugan

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Pan Macmillan

Year published

2013-03-28

Number of pages

272

Prizes

Short-listed for The Orwell Prize 2013 (UK)

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Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.

Note

This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us