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I'm an Old Commie! (Paperback)
Dan Lungu; Translated by Alistair Ian Blyth
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Emilia, a pensioner in northern Romania, is forced to confront the
nostalgic illusions she nurtures as a reaction to the grim
post-communist present when her daughter, now living in Canada,
telephones urging her not to vote for the former communists in
upcoming elections. Determined to discover in her own mind why
`things were better back then,’ she explores her memories of
growing up in an impoverished village and of her life as a factory
worker in the town. But ironic tension grows as the reader glimpses
between the lines how nothing was what it seemed in Ceaușescu’s
Romania. Interspersed among Emilia’s memories are fantastical,
hilarious anecdotes about the dictator, told by a factory foreman
who will turn out to have been a secret police informer. I’m an
Old Commie! is a subtle and humane novel about self-deception, but
also about the ways in which a totalitarian state twisted ordinary
lives.
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