Bibliograph

Burying the typewriter, a memoir, Carmen Bugan

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Burying the typewriter, a memoir, Carmen Bugan

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Illustrations

platesillustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Burying the typewriter

Oclc number

759175059

Responsibility statement

Carmen Bugan

Sub title

a memoir

Summary

The author recounts growing up on her grandparents' farm in the Romanian countryside and describes being shunned at school and by neighbors after discovering that her father was a political dissident during the time of Ceausescu

Table Of Contents

Foreword / by Lynn Freed -- Old photographs -- Bunicu and Bunica : Drăgănşti, 1975 -- Holidays -- The house of straw -- Earthquake -- The Black Sea -- The angels in Bunica's dream -- Pouring the foundation -- Hands at the window -- Burying the typewriter -- The watermelon child -- March 10, 1983 -- Mom's dream -- An audience with my father at the Rahova Prison -- My parent's divorce -- Aiud -- Amnesty -- House arrest -- My visit to the American Embassy -- Last summer with Bunicu Neculai -- Goodbye, my village, October 1989 -- Returning to Rome, 2006 -- Afterword: The files, 2010-2011

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