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A coming of age story, a struggle for political integrity and female identity, a wonderful love story - the book engages us on many levels. --Bernhard Schlink, author of THE READER and HOMECOMING
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I was swept away by Domnica Radulescu's debut novel. It's at once a haunting journey to a faraway country, beautiful and terrifying, and an odyssey straight to the heart of a young girl and the remarkable woman she becomes. Deeply moving and deeply felt, Train to Trieste is an unforgettable story that indroduces a new and astonishingly fresh voice.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Loved this story which relates the story of Mona a teenager in Ceacescu's Romania, falling in love and escaping to the West, rebuilind a new life in the US. The story is full of twists and turns as we follow Mona moving to her new life in the West.Even though she quickly integrate herself into the American way of life, she remains true to herself and cant forget her native country. I love Dominic Radulescu writing, the way she narrates Mona's story is light,colourful and picturesque. Your heart is bouncing reading through the pages,as you follow Mona's tale, I could hardly let got of it.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
One feels that there is a LOT of the author in this book. She brings out both the beauty and the ugliness of Romania. During the years leading up to the 1989 revolution, there was a justifiable culture of distrust amongst friends combined with a strengthening of family bonds. This is brought out so well by the writing of Domnica Radulescu. Eventually, the contrasts with American society, and its very different values, are brought to the fore, and you'll come to truly understand the meaning of the Romanian word, "dor."
Having many Romanian friends, but having only been to Bucharest on my numerous business visits to that vast country, the descriptions in this book serve to reinforce the message of those friends: I must travel to the Carpathian Mountains, or down to the Black Sea coast, if I am ever to fully appreciate their land.
This is an absorbing story which is brilliantly narrated.
Having many Romanian friends, but having only been to Bucharest on my numerous business visits to that vast country, the descriptions in this book serve to reinforce the message of those friends: I must travel to the Carpathian Mountains, or down to the Black Sea coast, if I am ever to fully appreciate their land.
This is an absorbing story which is brilliantly narrated.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is absorbing, beautifully written, and everyone with an interest in the world and/or an ounce of romance in them should read it. I bought it on a whim, and am very pleased I did. It's now one of my favourites.
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Three and a half stars
This novel tells the story of Mona, a seventeen-year-old Romanian girl, raised in Ceausescu's Romania. Read more
Published 7 months ago by F. M. M. Stott
full of emotions
A beautiful book. This is the story of Mona, a Romanian girl who was secretly sent to the US via Italy. We follow her life with its ups and downs, we cry and laugh with her. Read more
Published 10 months ago by nassia
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We learn from Domnica Radulescu, a Romanian Academic naturalised US citizen, or rather, through the narrative of the central character of her novel - one Mona Maria Manoliu, that... Read more
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