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Romanian Literature Ser.: I'm an Old Commie! by Dan Lungu (2017, Trade Paperback)

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Author: Dan Lungu. Title: I'm an Old Commie! 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. Series: Romanian Literature Series.

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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 Ceau escu 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 a Commie is a subtle and humane novel about self-deception, but also about the ways in which a totalitarian state twisted ordinary lives."