Born 1942 · Romania
Observator cultural 2023 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Voices at a Distance”
Gabriela Adameșteanu · 80 when first published
Novel · 304 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:Set in our own years, with all their challenges, a family novel in which individual voices try to make sense of the voices of the family around them.
Observator cultural 2019 · Winner
Gabriela Adameșteanu · 76 when first published
Novel · 400 pages · Migration, Politics
AI-generated summary:Back in Romania from her exile in France, Letiția tries to recover her family’s confiscated inheritance, in a country where everything has changed and little has improved.
Observator cultural 2011 · Winner
Title translated by AI:“Provisional”
Gabriela Adameșteanu · 68 when first published
Novel · 448 pages · Love, Politics
AI-generated summary:In 1970s Romania, Letiția tries to escape an unhappy marriage in the arms of Sorin, an ambitious colleague at the Institution, but under communism adultery is risky and everything is watched.