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My Native Land A4
Library of Congress copy signed by the author.
The Hour of Sand
Introduces a distinctive voice in Eastern European poetry.
The Sun of Hereafter
Ana Blandiana is one of Romania's foremost poets, her country's strongest candidate for the Nobel Prize. This book brings together her two recent collections The Sun of Hereafter and Ebb of the Senses in one volume. These are the two collections she published in Romania immediately before My Native Land A4.
Corridors of Mirrors
This contribution to imagology, the science which deals with images and stereotypes that people have of a nation, examines the complicated game of mirroring that both the British and the Romanians play when trying to define themselves and others, drawing on national images as reflected in fiction. R
The Phantom Church and Other Stories from Romania
Twenty stories from Romania, mixing political satire with folklore. They range from Ana Blandiana's The Phantom Church, on a not-so-miraculous miracle, to Mircea Cartarescu's The Game, which is a tale of rivalry between boys.
A Cup of Water Under My Bed
The PEN Literary Award–winning author “writes with honesty, intelligence, tenderness, and love” about her Colombian-Cuban heritage and queer identity in this poignant coming-of-age memoir (Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street). In this lyrical, coming-of-age memoir, Daisy Hernández chronicles what the women in her Cuban-Colombian family taught her about love, money, and race. Her mother warns her about envidia and men who seduce you with pastries, while one tía bemoans that her niece is turning out to be “una india” instead of an American. Another auntie instructs that when two people are close, they are bound to become like uña y mugre, fingernails and dirt, and...
The Shadow of Words
Ana Blandiana is one of Romania's foremost poets, a leading dissident before the fall of Communism, and now one of her country's strongest candidates for the Nobel Prize. A prominent opponent of the Ceaușescu regime, Blandiana became known for her daring, outspoken poems as well as for her courageous defence of ethical values. Over the years, her works have become the symbol of a moral consciousness that refuses to be silenced by a totalitarian government. The Shadow of Words covers Blandiana's early collections published from 1964 to 1981, as well as including uncollected poems from that period which only appeared in anthologies. It follows My Native Land A4 (2014), The Sun of Hereafter - ...
Uncollected Poems
Presents a collection of previously uncollected poems by the Welsh poet.
