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by Helena Drysdale (Author), Tobias Wolff (Introduction)
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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Picador; New edition edition (11 Oct 1996)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0330347926
  • ISBN-13: 978-0330347921
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 13 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 161,721 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Travelling with friends through Romania in 1977, Helena Drysdale met George Cupar, an Orthodox priest-poet. They drank wine in Transylvanian forests and avoided the secret police, camping beneath the Carpathian moon. When she returned home, George wrote her letters full of criticism of the Romanian regime amd asking her to marry him and to help him escape; eventually the letters stopped. Twelve years later, Helena returned to Romania in search of George. This book tells the story of her journey, which took her from Orthodox monasteries to prison-asylums, and from George's family to Securitate "colonels" in a country trapped in a labyrinth of post-communist paranoia.

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5.0 out of 5 stars This is a haunting and unusual book, 1 Mar 2006
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I have travelled a lot in Romania, and this is the only book that really captures the essence of that sad but beautiful place.
In the late 1970s, when Romania was in the grip of Ceausescu, Helena met a young poet/priest called George, and travelled with him around Romania. After she returned to university in Cambridge, he continued to write to her, begging her to marry him and to get him out of the country. His escape plans failed, and Romania disappeared into its Communist hell. After Ceausescu was executed, she returned to find George. It would be a pity to reveal whether or not she found him again, but on the way she did discover an awful lot about the country, which she describes in clear, simple and affecting prose. She seems to understand the very nature of the people, and while sympathising with them, is also brave enough to criticize. This book really moved me.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars fascinating diturbing and moving, 7 Aug 2005
This book is a wonderfullly detailed and very sad story, from a period of of tragic history in Romania.

For anyone who visited Romania during the Ceacescu years this book will carry so many truths and will give many remeniders of how firtunate we are here in the west.

There is a great true story to this book, and i promise those that read it will not wnat to put the book down.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A journey through romanian life, 18 Jan 2000
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Having just returned from romania this book was a gift. Once started I could not put it down. An amazing story of communist rule, romanian culture and love. I had an idea of the ending but the history included in the book was fascinating. It is sad romania is taking so long to change, however, Helena Drysdales story tells not just of the cultural aspects of local life, but also of romanian suffering and romance under communism!
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5.0 out of 5 stars the real Romania
I am Romanian and have read the book recently. Helena Drysdale seemed to understand the very essence of the Romanian soul. Read more
Published on 18 April 2007 by Anca Weldon

5.0 out of 5 stars unusual, gripping, moving account of life in Ceausescu's Rom
I read this book because I travelled to Romania in the late seventies a few times (I used to study Romanian). Read more
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