Varujan Vosganian

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• Jocul celor o sută de frunze și alte povestiri

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  Observator cultural 2014 · Shortlist

  Jocul celor o sută de frunze și alte povestiri

  AITitle translated by AI:“The Game of a Hundred Leaves and Other Stories”

  Varujan Vosganian · 55 when first published

  Short stories · 440 pages

  AIAI-generated summary:Six stories in a magic-realist vein about the anxieties, searches and uncertainties of Romanians and their still unhealed traumas, warning that without memory the future will only be a return to the past.

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  Observator cultural 2010 · ★ Winner

  The Book of Whispers

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  Varujan Vosganian · 51 when first published

  Novel · 360 pages · Historical, Family, War

  AIAI-generated summary:In an Armenian side street of 1950s Focșani, among the smell of fresh coffee and his grandparents’ keepsakes, a boy listens to the old Armenians of his childhood, who tell unsettling stories to free themselves of a trauma.