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“Father’s Time” (title translated by AI)
Petre Barbu (born 1962)
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Alecu Ancuțescu carries his nearly sixty years badly. His world disappoints and frightens him, and violence has become natural to him without his noticing. His wife Larisa, whom he once adored, is a permanently quarrelsome alcoholic; Oana, their fifteen-year-old daughter whom he loves beyond measure, has shed all affection for him. The office building where he has worked as a watchman for fifteen years is the only place where he does not feel a complete failure. One day Larisa disappears, and Alecu, trying to save himself and his family, picks apart his life and his fears in the uncertain years before Romania joined the European Union.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 352 pages in the original
- Genres
- Family (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Romania, 2000s
- First published
- 2022 by Polirom
- Author's age
- 60 when first published
- ISBN
9789734689965 (original)