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Fantoma din moară
“The Phantom in the Mill” (title translated by AI)
Doina Ruști (born 1957)
English editions
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At the heart of a village stands a mill, its axis, its hearth and its obsession. There an epileptic named Max is killed by mistake, and the whole village is forced to keep quiet and so becomes complicit. Around this crime runs a slippery world of informers, petty survival and the great decisions taken by the makers of History, a story of communism and what it left behind. Over it all drifts a vaporous, ever-present phantom, bound to the ruins of that world and obliged to live among them. Everyday realism, satire and the fantastic weave into each other.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 430 pages in the original
- Genres
- Politics (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Romania
- First published
- 2008 by Polirom
- Author's age
- 51 when first published
- ISBN
9789734610990 (original)