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Finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, August 2013 Finalist for the George Orwell Prize for Political Writing, April 2013 (UK) Winner of the Bakeless Prize for Nonfiction, a childhood memoir of political oppression and persecution during Romania's Ceausescu years Carmen Bugan grew up amid the bounty of the Romanian countryside on her grandparent's farm where food and laughter were plentiful. But eventually her father's behavior was too disturbing to ignore. He wept when listening to Radio Free Europe, hid pamphlets in sacks of dried beans, and mysteriously buried and reburied a typewriter. When she discovered he was a political dissident she became anxious for him to conform. However, with her mother in the hospital and her sister at boarding school, she was alone, and helpless to stop him from driving off on one last, desperate protest. After her father's subsequent imprisonment, Bugan was shunned by her peers at school and informed on by her neighbors. She candidly struggled with the tensions of loving her "hero" father who caused the family so much pain. When he returned from prison and the family was put under house arrest, the Bugans were forced t

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Author

Bugan, Carmen

Publisher

Graywolf Press

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781555976170

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, Memoir, History

Rating

3.9 / 5 (196 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14