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I left Romania in 1991. I have survived Ceausescu's dictatorial regime, the 1989 revolution and the 1990 miners' clash to tell the story. I have written a novel entitled 'The State of Normality' about life in Bucharest (Romania's capital) and the rest of the country during Ceausescu's government - with its evolution, the revolution and through the day the miners came. I think these are important moments in Romania's history. I tell myself that we were close to death and sometimes we were desperate. But all this is gone now, it seems insignificant, even senseless. All those events lost their tragic and grotesque intensity.

While I was there I thought I would never be able to forget the sickness, the disgust and the fatigue. I reached some kind of stupefaction that allowed me to receive everything without revolt, like in a sleep. But I think it's very important to cover the story from different points of view. This is why the main character of the story Col. Petre Negulescu is a high ranking Security agent who during one day (the day when the miners came to Bucharest to beat the protesters), in his office recalls his, and his friends lives during the last twelve years.

Opening the safe containing his friends' files he finds photos, diaries, notes, declarations - memories, ash. The conclusion at the end of the day?- The end has the ambiguity of Petre's life: "The difference between what it was and what it could be reminded him very often of the final jump of the red ball [of a roulette], from a point that seemed to be given to the next one if not to a complete opposite one."

If you would like to read more, please send me an e-mail message at [email protected] and I would be very happy to send you a sample or the entire manuscript.

a historical romance
about Romania.

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DOINA HORODNICEAN

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The "Sequences" I propose � a volume of poetry, written during 1999 � 2001, after I left Romania - are meditations on dramas, problematic situations, generally human, or of some local specific. It contains thirty two poems in Romanian and English, some of them published in Bucharest, Romania in the literary magazine �Literatorul�, in 2000.

The volume, ilustrated by Cristian Tarba, was published in May 2004.

volume of poetry about Romania and beyond