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An Instinctive Feeling of Innocence

Das primäre Gefühl der Schuldlosigkeit

Dana Grigorcea (born 1979)

Translated by Alta L. Price

English editions

In English

• An Instinctive Feeling of Innocence

  Seagull Books · United Kingdom · March 2019 · Hardcover · 228 pages

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A bank is robbed, and the employee Victoria is given leave to get over the traumatic experience. Only recently returned to her home city, she uses the time to explore the Bucharest of her childhood in the Ceaușescu era and the Bucharest of today, a city both familiar and completely changed. In the hottest summer for years she drives through the city in a convertible with her current boyfriend, who proposes to her, and meets again the old seamstress on her platform, the bank robber, her former lover and the son of the murdered neighbours. Stories full of wit and melancholy make a portrait of Romania that is also a book about remembering.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

262 pages in the original

Genres

Love, Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

Romania

First published

2015 by Dörlemann

Author's age

36 when first published

ISBN

9783038200215 (original)

9780857426512 (Seagull Books, United Kingdom)