Grand Prize and Other Stories

Informationen zum Autor DANIELA CRASNARU won the Romanian Academy Prize, Romania's highest literary honor, in 1991, and is currently a diplomat, serving as Program Director of the Romanian Academy in Rome. Her works include Sea-Level Zero (BOA, 1999) and Letters from Darkness: Poems (Oxford, 1992). She has been a fellow of the Iowa International Writing Program, a visiting professor of European poetry in Heidelberg, and a resident at the Rockefeller Foundation Study Center in Bellagio, Italy. ADAM J. SORKIN has published translations of poetry in American Poetry Review , The New Yorker , Partisan Review , Keyon Review , and Poetry . He is the translator of Marin Sorescu's The Bridge , Ioana Ieronim's The Triumph of the Water Witch , and Liliana Ursu's The Sky behind the Forest . He is Distinguished Professor of English at Penn State Unviersity. Klappentext A collection of stories revealing the quiet desperation of everyday people in communist Romania Zusammenfassung An unhappily married woman waits in vain for a call from a potential lover! and a foul-mouthed mother of seven accuses a war hero of conning her out of her life savings. This work portrays the lives of people so used to hardship! that it never occurs to them to surrender.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Daniela Crasnaru, Daniela/ Sorkin Crasnaru
• Mitarbeit: Daniela Crasnaru (Übersetzung), Adam J Sorkin (Übersetzung), Adam J. Sorkin (Übersetzung)
• Verlag: Northwestern University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 30.11.2004
• EAN: 9780810118508
• ISBN: 978-0-8101-1850-8
• Seiten: 144
• Abmessung: 140 mm x 210 mm x 13 mm
• Serien: Writings from an Unbound Europ; Writings from an Unbound Europe S.; Writings from an Unbound Europe; Writings from an Unbound Europ; Writings from an Unbound Europe
• Thema: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur