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Great books about Romania in English

by Craig Turp May 25, 2011 Books

 So far we have published four lengthy reviews of great books about Romania in English: Romania: Borderland of Europe By Lucian Boia Rates of Exchange By Malcolm Bradbury Romania and the European Union: How the Weak Vanquisjed the Strong By Tom Gallagher Along the Enchanted Way By William Blacker Over the next couple of months [...]

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Great books about Romania in English No. 4: Along the Enchanted Way

by Craig Turp September 20, 2010 Books

  Along the Enchanted Way By William Blacker Apparently, in 1997, planes bound for Romania departed from the great media and financial centres of the western world carrying a sinister cargo: slick advertising executives hell bent on selling Romania’s dirt poor yet blissfully happy peasants all sorts of evil goods (such as – God forbid [...]

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Great books about Romania in English No. 3: Romania and the EU. How the Weak Vanquished the Strong

by Christopher Lawson August 27, 2010 Books

  Romania and the European Union: How the Weak Vanquisjed the Strong By Tom Gallagher Reviewed by Christopher Lawson What are the key events in Romania over the last 20 years? This is a much abbreviated version. For 10 of those years, the former minor functionary and Ceausescu lieutenant Ion Iliescu held power. Communism was [...]

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Bucharest Life favourite places: Carturesti/Gradina Verona/Gradina OAR

by Craig Turp August 16, 2010 Bucharest

 Bucharest In Your Pocket, like all In Your Pockets, isn’t meant to have favourite places. As objective observers – swayed neither by personal preference nor the filthy lucre of an advertiser – we say what we see and leave the conjecture to our readers. That’s one of the reasons we started Bucharest Life. For while [...]

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Great Books in English about Romania No. 2: Rates of Exchange, by Malcolm Bradbury

by Craig Turp April 27, 2010 Books

  Rates of Exchange By Malcolm Bradbury First, a classic communist joke: “Why is Slaka like America?” “Because in America you can criticise America, and in Slaka you can criticise America too.” OK. So it goes without saying that this novel (from which we pinched the joke) by one of Britain’s finest 20th century writers, [...]

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Anthony Frost: Bucharest’s English Bookshop

by Craig Turp October 19, 2009 Bucharest

 Bucharest has had English bookshops before. There was a place called Salinger’s at the Marriott, which sold overpriced books few were interested in and eventually closed (though a tiny branch survives at the airport). There was an attempt by Libraria Noi/Sala Dalles to move into English books – at one stage they had a wide [...]

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