Burying the Typewriter
Burying the Typewriter
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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 . . .’
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Burying the Typewriter 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.
‘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
‘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
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.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781447210849 |
| ISBN 10 | 1447210840 |
| Title | Burying the Typewriter |
| Author | Carmen Bugan |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
| Year published | 2013-03-28 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for The Orwell Prize 2013 (UK) |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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