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Cartea Reghinei
“Reghina’s Book” (title translated by AI)
Ioana Nicolaie (born 1974)
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Reghina is a female Job from northern Transylvania, a place where the miraculous slips into the ordinary and recent history strangles people’s lives. She is the mother of twelve children, with whom she forms “one body of a thousand kilograms”, made of few joys and unbearable suffering. Moving through a mind that mixes times and feelings, the story unfolds in episodes of a woman’s life as it was: a village sitting, a courtship, a wedding, the first night of love, wonder, pain, shame and fear, the first beating from her husband, the first child and those that follow, up to twelve, in the small town of Văralia.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 224 pages in the original
- Genres
- Family, Historical (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Romania
- First published
- 2019 by Humanitas
- Author's age
- 45 when first published
- ISBN
9789735064389 (original)