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“All the Bookseller’s Children” (title translated by AI)

Veronica D. Niculescu

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Silvia Albu, a young bookseller, has just come back to her home town after almost five years’ forced absence. It is 1983 in Romania: food is rationed, the shops are nearly empty, the power goes off for an hour a day, abortion is banned and contraception does not exist, so love comes with the threat of death. On the edge of Pitești, the Complex is a universe of its own, around which the grocery, the butcher, the cake shop, the haberdasher, the bookshop, the watchmaker and the post office revolve. Her life, marked by a trauma at seventeen, teems with children. Over the summer an idyll begins with the watchmaker, seven years older.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

336 pages in the original

Genres

Love, Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

Romania, 1983

First published

2020 by Polirom

ISBN

9789734680375 (original)