Once again, the extraordinary storyteller, Ludovic Bruckstein, opens the door onto a lost world of J... more

Nadia Comaneci is the Romanian child prodigy and global gymnastics star who ultimately fled her home... more

A director is trying to adapt a short story he once wrote for the screen. The story is about an isol... more

The time is the twilight of the decrepit Brezhnev regime, the place, the Soviet Socialist Republic o... more

The Trap & The Rag Doll are two novellas by the Romanian writer Ludovic Bruckstein, that have remain... more

The year is 1959, one of the darkest periods of Romania s communist regime. Political prisoner Bruno... more

La Belle Roumaine tells the story of Ana, a beautiful and bewitching Romanian woman. Shuttling betwe... more

Emilia, a pensioner in northern Romania, is forced to confront the nostalgic illusions she nurtures ... more

A young man is found lying unconscious on the outskirts of Bucharest. No one knows who he is and eve... more

Pushed around by ticket takers who demand his ticket in several languages, a middle aged man goes th... more

The writer-narrator of The Bulgarian Truck has hit upon a new technique for constructing a novel, wh... more

The cannibal has played a surprisingly important role in the history of thought--perhaps the ultimat... more

It wasn’t until after Dumitru Tsepeneag fled Romania for France in 1971 that he was able to speak fr... more

Nadia Comaneci is the Romanian child prodigy and global gymnastics star who ultimately fled her home... more

Jonah and His Daughter offers us an affectionate and vivid account of the reluctant, recalcitrant pr... more

"Lucian Dan Teodorovici is an excellent teller of atmospheric tales. The tales from childhood are al... more

"...one fine day, Marga vanished the same as she had appeared: unexpectedly.Of course, Marga was an ... more

Marianne is an adulteress tortured by guilt and by the harassment of a legal investigation. In an ef... more

It begins in New York with a painting of God by Fra Angelico, which has been stolen from the Louvre ... more

Alistair Ian Blyth’s Card Catalogue is a book about books. Set in Bucharest in the decade after the Revolution, it...... more

A harrowing account of the Armenian genocide documented through the stories of those who managed to ... more

New edition includes updated rules and regulations and guidance on environmental issues.... more

This manual explains the entire building process in plain English, backed up with hundreds of color ... more

A village in the Carpathian Mountains, one of the last outposts of pre-modernity, an elderly man, se... more

original young writers, he is the author of four novels, two books of short stories, and several collections of poems. Alistair...... more

The Birdman, narrator of "Our Circus Presents," lives in a one-room apartment on the fifth floor of ... more